How did the Bible, the Canon of Holy Scripture, evolve into the form in which it exists today? This book tells us how. The study of the Canon has come to be looked upon as one of the dry and less -interesting fields of Bible study. That a great pity, for it is by such study that we come to see the essential greatness of Scripture."

'The task of the Christian Church in this, as in any other age, is to communicate to men the truth of God as we find it in the word of God, ' writes the author. Dr Barclay. rightly described as one of the foremost communicators of Christianity today, here sets about that task, of showing how and why it should be done. As always. his work is written against the full biblical background ('Communicating the Gospel in the Prophets"); a description of the way the Apostles went about their task ('Communicating the Gospel in the Apostles'): thence to the challenge of doing so today ('we can never...