God's last words : [manuscript] : reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism /
Katz, David S.
God's last words : reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism / [manuscript] : David S. Katz. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004. - 397 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-374) and index.
Preface: The Biblical reader and the shifting horizon of expectations -- The prehistoric English Bible -- In pursuit of a useful Bible : scriptural politics and the English Civil War -- Cracking the foundations : Biblical criticism and the Newtonian synthesis -- Streamlined Scriptures : the demystification of the Bible -- The occult Bible : aesthetization and the persistence of the supernatural -- Divine copyright and the apotheosis of the author in eighteenth-century England -- Ten little Israelites : counting out the Bible in Victorian England -- Unsuitable paternity : Darwin, anthropology, and the evolutionist Bible -- Conclusion: The end of a world and the beginning of fundamentalism.
0300101155 (hpb)
2003021344
Bible. English --Versions--History.
Bible--Reading--History.--England
BS455 / .K38 2004
220.5/2/009
God's last words : reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism / [manuscript] : David S. Katz. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004. - 397 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-374) and index.
Preface: The Biblical reader and the shifting horizon of expectations -- The prehistoric English Bible -- In pursuit of a useful Bible : scriptural politics and the English Civil War -- Cracking the foundations : Biblical criticism and the Newtonian synthesis -- Streamlined Scriptures : the demystification of the Bible -- The occult Bible : aesthetization and the persistence of the supernatural -- Divine copyright and the apotheosis of the author in eighteenth-century England -- Ten little Israelites : counting out the Bible in Victorian England -- Unsuitable paternity : Darwin, anthropology, and the evolutionist Bible -- Conclusion: The end of a world and the beginning of fundamentalism.
0300101155 (hpb)
2003021344
Bible. English --Versions--History.
Bible--Reading--History.--England
BS455 / .K38 2004
220.5/2/009