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The Bible and the People
Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Bible and the People
Chapter One. The Eye of the Beholder: The English Bible, c. –
Chapter Two. On the Road and in the Street: The English Bible, c. –
Chapter Three. The Politics of Translation: The Bible in English, c. –
Chapter Four. Missions and Markets: The Bible in America, c. –
Chapter Five. On Not Understanding the Bible
Chapter Six. Extra-Illustrating the Bible
Chapter Seven. Traveling Companion: The Bible in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Eight. Old Wine in New Wineskins: The Bible in the Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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THE BIBLE AND THE PEOPLE
For my faculty colleagues at the Claremont School of Theology, –
THE BIBLE AND THE PEOPLE LORI ANNE FERRELL
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN AND LONDON
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Making good on a promise to a friend to summarize his views on Christianity, Thomas Jefferson set to work with scissors, snipping out every miracle and inconsistency he could find in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Then, relying on a cut-and-paste technique, he reassembled the excerpts into what he believed was a more coherent narrative and pasted them onto blank paper -- alongside translations in French, Greek and Latin.
In a letter sent from Monticello to John Adams in , Jefferson said his "wee little book" of 46 pages was based on a lifetime of inquiry and reflection and contained "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man."
He called the book "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth." Friends dubbed it the Jefferson Bible. It remains perhaps the most comprehensive expression of what the nation's third president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence found ethically interesting about the Gospels and their depiction of Jesus.
"I have performed the operation for my own use," he continued, "by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter, which is evidently his and which is as easily distinguished as diamonds in a dunghill."
The little leather-bound tome,