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The good book : a humanist bible

Title
  1. The good book : a humanist bible / conceived, selected, redacted, arranged, worked, and in part written by A. C. Grayling.
Published by
  1. New York : Walker, 2011.
Author
  1. Grayling, A. C.

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Description
  1. 597 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "...Grayling has distilled the work of hundreds of authors and more than one thousand texts using the same techniques...that produced the holy books of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. Their wit and advice, human stories, tragedies and yearnings, love and consolations are shaped into fourteen constituent parts that recall the Bible in structure: Genesis, Wisdom, Parables, Concord, Lamentations, Consolations, Sages, Songs, Histories, Proverbs, The Lawgiver, Acts, Epistles, and The Good...For a secular age in which many find that religion no longer speaks to them, 'The Good Book' is a literary tour de force..."--Dust jacket.
Alternative title
  1. Humanist bible
Subject
  1. Humanism in literature
  2. Humanism, Religious
  3. Humanism
  4. Humanistic ethics
  5. Secular humanism
Contents
  1. Genesis -- Wisdom -- Parables -- Concord -- Lamentations -- Consolations -- Sages -- Songs -- Histories -- Proverbs -- The Lawgiver -- Acts -- Epistles -- The Good.
Call number
  1. JFE 12-1038
Author
  1. Grayling, A. C.
Title
  1. The good book : a humanist bible / conceived, selected, redacted, arranged, worked, and in part written by A. C. Grayling.
Imprint
  1. New York : Walker, 2011.
Edition
  1. 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN
  1. 9780802717375
  2. 0802717373
Research call number
  1. JFE 12-1038
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