The purpose of The People’s Bible is, in essence, to make it readable. In these interpretive translations, the variety and scope of the Bible comes to life, proving that it can give pleasure even to non-believing lovers of great literature. In this volume, St. Luke records the beginnings of Christianity’s campaign to gain converts for the Faith—a Faith that would be catapulted into power by the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, and that left its sister religion, Judaism, struggling to maintain its integrity in a hostile world.