{"product_id":"the-story-of-the-bible-english-chinese-edition-van-loon-s-classic-retelling-of-the-old-new-testaments","title":"The Story of the Bible (English-Chinese Edition): Van Loon’s Classic Retelling of the Old \u0026 New Testaments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/0087\/4574\/files\/41655f9fb0ef861840f31e2fe9b1501ef23fba48919998a210072c24f6f51bd4.jpg?v=1793437987\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eYou’ve heard the stories a hundred times — Noah‘s ark, David and Goliath, the Last Supper. But every time you try to read the actual Bible, you get lost in the endless genealogies, the archaic language, the sheer size of it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eVan Loon had the same problem. He was one of the great popular historians of the 20th century — his books were translated into dozens of languages and sold in the millions. In 1923, he set out to write a version of the Bible that an ordinary person could actually sit down and read. The result is\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eThe Story of the Bible\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e: no preaching, no dense theology, just the essential characters and events of the Bible told in the voice of someone who genuinely enjoys telling stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eThis edition adds something extra for international readers: it‘s fully bilingual, English and Chinese on facing or sequential pages. You can use it as an English reader — Van Loon’s original prose is clear, conversational, and genuinely enjoyable to read, not textbook-stiff. Or you can use it as a cultural primer, letting the Chinese translation anchor your understanding as you go.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eIt also includes dozens of the author‘s own black-and-white illustrations — loose, witty line drawings that feel like sketches from a friend’s notebook. They make the book a pleasure to flip through even when you‘re not reading it cover to cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003ePublished by Jincheng Publishing House (2012 edition). 364 pages. A comfortable size to hold. Easy to pick up for ten minutes on a commute or before bed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eIf you’re learning English, curious about Western culture, or have always meant to figure out what the Bible actually says but never found a way in — this is the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/0087\/4574\/files\/5d71d9682de9dd339a88efa20b629e825bf45cf66a7dc41fb8d1aa0e3422d95c.jpg?v=1793437992\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/0087\/4574\/files\/ae7bc23291aa3109ad6a8b83bf7263d7cd58d691855551975f8cc6a2d8fa40e9.jpg?v=1793437997\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/0087\/4574\/files\/98939ae3bfa5ec68398fc12818fd7b87b98e4ec2b93293c8c5840d466b292cc5.jpg?v=1793438000\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"orientalbookworm","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61462404071758,"sku":"978-7-5155-0560-2-1712146-0-0-0-0-0-0","price":18.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/0087\/4574\/files\/283229814cc937debd36ad0ec9402a8e5ae0362eac5358f1cafd815c2050f415.jpg?v=1793416655","url":"https:\/\/orientalbookworm.com\/products\/the-story-of-the-bible-english-chinese-edition-van-loon-s-classic-retelling-of-the-old-new-testaments","provider":"orientalbookworm","version":"1.0","type":"link"}