The Bible: A Biography: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Books That Changed the World series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Bible: A Biography runs 6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Josephine Bailey (about 4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 6 hours, it is shorter than 65% of the 31,282 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Books That Changed the World
This is book 7. Books 1 to 6 run 28.5 hours before it; books 1 to 8 run 38 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | On the Wealth of Nations | 5.5 hrs |
| 2 | The Qur'an: A Biography | 5 hrs |
| 3 | Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography | 4.5 hrs |
| 4 | Plato's Republic | 4.5 hrs |
| 5 | Clausewitz's On War: A Biography | 5.5 hrs |
| 6 | Thomas Paine's Rights of Man | 3.5 hrs |
| 7 | The Bible: A Biography | 6 hrs |
| 8 | Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography | 3.5 hrs |
More narrated by Josephine Bailey
Josephine Bailey narrates 41 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 490 hours in all.
About as long, on the Biography & Memoir shelf
3,060 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Bible: A Biography is book 7 of Karen Armstrong's Books That Changed the World series: a 6-hour unabridged recording, read by Josephine Bailey, released November 27, 2007, on the Biography & Memoir shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Josephine Bailey
- Released
- November 27, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biography & Memoir
- Series
- Books That Changed the World #7
- ISBN
- 9781400173945
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Bible: A Biography as an audiobook?
The Bible: A Biography runs 6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4 hours.
Is The Bible: A Biography free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Bible: A Biography?
The Bible: A Biography is narrated by Josephine Bailey.