The Back Door Introduction to the Bible

The Bible's influence on Western culture is profound: its stories are referenced in commerce, the arts, and beyond. Know the stories, and you understand the allusion in a commercial, a painting, or a movie. Living in the Western world, once cannot be culturally literate without knowing something about the Bible. A product of a very different world, the Bible can be hard to read and difficult to understand. In explaining the customs and social mores of the time, the authors take the reader to a level of understanding where the real significance of a story is more clearly revealed.--