An Introduction to the Bible
Pick up any book. You see its title. It may be American History, or The Vegetation of Hawaii, or How to Fix Plumbing. The title tells you the subject matter, and usually the next thing you want to know is the name of the author. A book on England written by Adolph Hitler would probably not be so good as one written by Winston Churchill. Nor would I trust Stalin even though he had written The History of Russia.
The book we are now about to study is called the Bible. The word Bible means The Book. A book that can bear simply the title of The Book must be a very important book. It is better called The Holy Scriptures. At any rate, everybody knows that the subject is God and religion. Therefore we want to know who wrote it. Was it written by someone like Hitler and Stalin, whom nobody should believe? Was it written by a popular and competent author like Churchill? Was it written by an expert researcher, even more competent? Who is it that claims to know enough about God and religion to write a volume of, say, 1,300 pages of double columns?
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