This volume is a work which the general reader as well as the Clergy, teachers and ordinary students of the Literature of Religion for a long time have needed. Lucidly, compactly and with charm, Sir Frederic Kenyon has told the full story of the writing and publishing of the Bible form its beginnings as fragments of papyri almost miraculously preserved through the kindly climate of the East, to the recent purchase of the Codex Sinaiticus.