The story of the Bible in Australia
The Bible is arguably the most influential book in the history of the world, but it was written by people completely unaware of the existence of a Great Southern Land.
And the people who were already living here had their own ideas of how the world came into being.
In the hands of writers, artists, wowsers, Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, Indigenous activists, and many more, the Bible would play a defining and contested role in Australia.
Historian Meredith Lake has written the story of the Bible's unique Australian history.
The Bible in Australia is published by New South
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