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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, [(c)2004.Description: xvi, 397 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300101155
  • 9780300101157
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS455.G637 2004
  • BS455.G637 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 : 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.
Review: "This wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first translations in the sixteenth century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the twentieth century. In an astonishing display of erudition, David Katz recreates the response of readers from different eras by examining the 'horizon of expectations' that provided the lens through which they read."--Jacket.
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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.

"This wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first translations in the sixteenth century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the twentieth century. In an astonishing display of erudition, David Katz recreates the response of readers from different eras by examining the 'horizon of expectations' that provided the lens through which they read."--Jacket.

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