Where on Earth Did the Bible Come From?: A Study of the Development of the Bible - Hardcover

by William Miller Fulkerson (Author), Peter Rhea Jones (Foreword by)

There are many book studies of particular books of the Bible. There is also a myriad of devotional and inspirational books regarding the Bible, and many questions about it. Why are there different accounts of some events? Why is the description of the earth and the world different from what we know today? Many of these questions--and others--are answered when a person learns how the Bible was put together. This book does not deal with theology or doctrine. It is an account of how the various parts of the Bible came to be included. Further, the book traces the journey of the Bible from its initial collections to Jerome and continues until its publication in the English language, in both the Protestant and the Catholic versions. The author has written this book for the eager layman and woman and also for the first-year college or Bible school student who is in a religious studies program.

Author Biography

William Miller Fulkerson is retired as the director of the Department of Refugee and Immigration Ministries of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is a native of Illinois and has pastored churches in Illinois and Kentucky. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University (BA and MA) with studies in Spanish, Romance languages, and linguistic anthropology. He also has a degree in Bible and a DMin from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. His focus was on social work and he is licensed in this field.

He lives with his family in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where he enjoys gardening, reading mysteries, music, and travel. This is his first book.