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The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture

The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture Paperback / softback - 2007

by Jonathan Sheehan

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Paperback / softback. New. How did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? Showing how Protestant translators and scholars in the 18th century transformed the Bible from a book justified by theology to one justified by culture, this book offers a history of the Bible in the century of its greatest crisis and, in turn, a new vision of this century and its effects on religion.
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  • Title The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture
  • Author Jonathan Sheehan
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
  • Date 2007-07-22
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780691130699
  • ISBN 9780691130699 / 0691130698
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.35 x 0.74 in (23.42 x 16.13 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Dewey Decimal Code 220.090

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First line

THE ENLIGHTENMENT BIBLE grew out of the soil of the Protestant Reformation, whose insistence on first principles-sola gratia, sola fides, sola scriptura-put the Bible at the center of the enormous struggles that beset sixteenth-century Christendom.

From the rear cover

"This lively, elegant and erudite book sheds new light on intellectual relations between eighteenth-century Germany and England. The book will have much to offer historians of the early-modern period, as well as historians of science, literary critics, and theologians."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

"I can genuinely say that this is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time. Elegantly written, it presents the issues in a clear, thorough, and scholarly fashion. It is sure to win high praise."--Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College

About the author

Jonathan Sheehan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of a number of articles on European religion and its transformations, and winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.