God's last words : reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism
This wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past 400 years, from the first translations in the 16th century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the 20th century. Katz recreates the response of readers from different eras.
History
xvi, 397 p.
9780300101157, 0300101155
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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 : 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