The Bible in Australia

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.