Fred Gladstone Bratton (1896–1968)

About the author: quoting from the book's back cover, "Fred Gladstone Bratton received his S.T.B., and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University where he also taught. From 1931 to 1962 he was professor of the history and literature of religion at Springfield College. Until his death in 1970, he lectured on historical and biographical subjects throughout the United States. . ." Daniel Poling of "The Christian Herald," said of this work, "I know of no other single volume covering all of the material essential for an introduction of the Bible through the historical method. Recent archaeological discoveries are incorporated and the language is non-technical. The author is objective and of sound scholarship. Extreme fundamentalism will reject some of the 'findings,' but liberals and conservatives will applaud the scholarship of this book."… (mehr)