Talk:History of Bible

Retuning of redirect target
As I understand it, the original target page The Bible and history is about history and the bible, i.e. the parts of the bible that can or cannot be historically verified, and how historically verifiable events affected the events depicted in the bible. It's not about the history of the book *per se*. The re-direct from "History of bible" should rather lead to the history of the book itself, its development and how the book came together from vastly separate sources. Yay or nay? The current redirect goes to the section "Development" on the main bible page - by no means a perfect solution, but better than the earlier one, as that section begins with two links to the "Development of Old Testament canon" and equivalent New Testament. A lay person, just an average person looking for information on how the book came to be, what parts developed into what and how close the texts are to the source material on the events depicted, will not be well served by searching for "history of bible" and being redirected to a page focusing exclusively on the bible "in history" - i.e. a bunch of historical events depicted or evidenced in the bible. Pär Larsson (talk) 19:06, 8 July 2011 (UTC)