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

Author/creator Katz, David S.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxvi, 397 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-378) and index.
LCCN 2003021344
ISBN0300101155 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BS455 .K38 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold