Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions by Nicholas Ostler

Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions

Nicholas Ostler

384 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a compelling and beguiling metaphor for the Christian story of the Beginni...

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