Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States /

Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States / / Seth Perry.

Early Americans claimed that they looked to "the Bible alone" for authority, but the Bible was never, ever alone. Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States is a wide-ranging exploration of the place of the Christian Bible in America in the decades after the Revolution. Attendi...

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Perry, Seth,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 6 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Capitalization
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Print- Bible Culture in the Early United States
  • Chapter One. Creating the American Bible Reader, 1777-1816
  • Chapter Two. Taking a Text
  • Part II. Beyond Bibles
  • Chapter Three. Joshua, When the Walls Fell
  • Chapter Four. "Write These Things in a Book"
  • Conclusion. Abandoned Quarries
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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