The Jefferson Bible : : A Biography / / Peter Manseau.
The life and times of a uniquely American testamentIn his retirement, Thomas Jefferson edited the New Testament with a penknife and glue, removing all mention of miracles and other supernatural events. Inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, Jefferson hoped to reconcile Christian tradition with...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) :; 6 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Author’s Note and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Excavating the Sacred
- Chapter 1. Sharpening the Blade
- Chapter 2. Making the Cut
- Chapter 3. The Quest for the Jeffersonian Jesus
- Chapter 4. Lost and Found
- Chapter 5. Born Again
- Chapter 6. Social Engineering
- Chapter 7. Congressional Inheritances
- Chapter 8. Jefferson, Jesus, and the Sixties
- Chapter 9. Choose Your Own Adventure
- Epilogue: Bible as Barrow
- Illustrations
- Notes
- Index