Asimov's Guide to the Bible

The Old and New Testaments (2 vols.)

Isaac Asimov, scientist, polymath, and science fiction author, presents a detailed overview of the Hebrew Bible and of the New Testament. He sets the books in historical context, glossing names, places, and aspects of culture. He does so in a compelling style and authoratative voice, possessed of a scholar’s great detailed knowledge, a novelist’s expressive appeal to imagination, and a teacher’s skill at arousing and sustaining interest. He makes the subjects, the writers and the original readers of these foundational narratives come alive.