The Bible in Australia: A cultural history

By Meredith Lake

Koby Abberton emerges like a shark on to the sand at Maroubra Beach. Tattooed from shoulder to shoulder, his body bares letters like teeth: 'My brothers keeper'. In this surprising and revelatory history of the Bible in Australia, Meredith Lake gets under the skin of a text that's been read, wrestled with, preached and tattooed, and believed to be everything from a resented imposition to the very Word of God. The Bible in Australia explores how in the hands of Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, writers, artists and Indigenous Australians, the Bible has played a contested but defining role in this country.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742235719
• ISBN13: 9781742235714
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"