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Secondhand book for saleF. E. Peters.
The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Published London: The British Library, 2007 (previously issued by Princeton U.P.).
ISBN 9780712349437.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: the Bath Press.
Size: 164x239x29mm.
Page count: x,292pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: this copy has some mild shop wear.
This item £7.50
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)[
Publisher’s price £20.00]
Weight without packaging: 670g.
No particular medieval emphasis. Contents: Sacred words, sacred book; Book shaping — the making of a canon; Reciters, rhapsodes & scribes — how the Bible reached us; The good news & how we got it; Poet in performance — composition of the Quran; The book in mortal hands; In other words; Picturing the word; Giving voice to the word; Three books, side by side.
Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 16 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: no
Index: no[BML/UB]
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