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God's last words : [manuscript] : reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism / David S. Katz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.Description: 397 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0300101155 (hpb)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.5/2/009 22
LOC classification:
  • BS455 .K38 2004
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Contents:
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.
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Books Books Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology Library Available at Circulation Section 220.52 Kat 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16574

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.

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