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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David S Katz |
ISBN: | 0300101155 9780300101157 |
OCLC Number: | 1169993077 |
Description: | xvi, 397 p. |
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 |
Responsibility: | David S. Katz. |
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