Lori anne ferrell biography of abraham lincoln
•
Call Number: Online
ISBN:
Publication Date:
In the eleventh century, the Bible was available only in expensive and rare hand-copied manuscripts. Today, millions of people from all walks of life seek guidance, inspiration, entertainment, and answers from their own editions of the Bible. This illustrated book tells the story of what happened to the ancient set of writings we call the Bible during those thousand years. Anchoring the story in material evidence--hundreds of different translations and versions of the Bible--Lori Anne Ferrell discusses how the Bible has been endlessly retailored to meet the changing needs of religion, politics, and the reading public while retaining its special status as a sacred text. Focusing on the English-speaking world, "The Bible and the People" charts the extraordinary voyage of the Bible from manuscript Bibles to the Gutenberg volumes, Bibles commissioned by kings and queens, the Eliot Indian
•
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 Go
•
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 kvartet. Missions and Markets: The Bible in America, c. –
Chapter fem. On Not Understanding the Bible
Chapter Six. Extra-Illustrating the Bible
Chapter sju. Traveling Companion: The Bible in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Eight. Old Wine in New Wineskins: The Bible in the Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Citation preview
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
Copyright © bygd Lori Anne Ferrell All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form eller gestalt (beyond th