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God's last words : reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism

Title
God's last words : reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism / David S. Katz.
Author
Katz, David S.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

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Description
xvi, 397 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Bible. > Versions > History
  • Bible > England > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-378) and index.
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: aestheticization 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.
Call Number
JFE 04-3846
ISBN
0300101155 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003021344
OCLC
53131800
Author
Katz, David S.
Title
God's last words : reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism / David S. Katz.
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-378) and index.
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JFE 04-3846
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