I am trying to learn to make a Bible cake, preferably a closed bible. Any suggestions?

Well you could do a sheet cake (I'd make it 2 layers at least) and carve a little off into the sides for the pages. frost it in brown or use a fondant of your choice.  For the letters you could again do fondant in gold or royal icing painted with gold disco dust.  

Hello there,

I made a set of three closed books stacked on top of each other in November and wrote how I did it on my blog - it might give you an idea how to go about it.

http://offtherailscakes.co.uk/stacked-book-cake-my-how-to-guide-tutorial/

Good luck,

Carol