About The Bible and Its Influence
The student textbook is a hardcover, full-color, 387-page
volume that covers the content of Genesis to Revelation. It is
described as “a feast for the eyes” for its spectacular beauty and
contains some of the world’s most famous art, as well as sidebar
features on how the Bible has influenced literature, poetry, music,
art, history, public rhetoric, and Western civilization.
Special
one-or two-page features include Abraham Lincoln and the Bible,
Handel’s Messiah, The Bible and Emancipation, Shakespeare and the
Bible, plus many more.
The textbook was edited by Cullen Schippe, former vice-president and publisher for Music, Religion, and Social studies
at Macmillan/McGraw-Hill and Chuck Stetson, founder and chairman of
the Bible Literacy Project. The book was examined prior to
publication by 40 reviewers, with their feedback incorporated into
the editing of the text.
The Teacher’s Edition is a 440-page softbound text, with
wraparound feature, meaning the student text is printed in
miniature, with surrounding teacher sections, such as: Lesson
objectives, Working With The Text, Biblical Information, Visual
Learning, Cultural Connections, Recall, Projects, Into Everyday
Language, Music Extension, Literature Extension, and more.
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