Three Thousand Years in Your Hands

Where did the Bible in your home come from?

For years I did not open the Bible, and when I finally began to read it, I did not know where it came from. One night at Holy Hour, a deacon told how the Word of God reached the language of the people, and since then I have not stopped researching.

This book traces that history: from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jerome in Bethlehem, from Gutenberg's press to the Council of Trent, from a rabbi of medieval Castile and a few fugitive monks to the first Bible printed in Mexico, and from the encyclical of 1943 to the Bibles found today in the parishes of Latin America.

• The manuscripts: from Qumran and the great codices to Jerome's Vulgate.
• The Bibles in Spanish: Alba, Ferrara, the Oso, Scío, Torres Amat, and the Vence printed in Mexico.
• The Catholic Bibles of Latin America today, and the same verse compared across the centuries.

Written for the Catholic reader, honest where historians disagree, and with a reflection at the end of each chapter, so that the history does not remain a mere curiosity. A full-color edition with photographs, a family tree of the translations, chapter timelines, and comparisons made from copies in the author's own collection.

New paperback, 5.83 × 8.27 in, full color, 250 pages.

¿De dónde salió la Biblia que tienes en tu casa? La historia de cómo llegó la Palabra de Dios hasta nosotros, de los Rollos del Mar Muerto a las biblias católicas de hoy. Edición en inglés, a color, 250 páginas. También existe la edición en español.

Libro nuevo, rústica, a color.