The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
Price 6.99 - 11.40 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9781940177311
Brand
Creative Commons
Author
Thomas Jefferson
Producer
Книга по Требованию
Pages
178
Year of production
2013
Binding
152x220
In the early nineteenth century Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, conceived the idea of extracting a gospel purified of what he saw as extraneous philosophical, mythological, and theological elements. To do so, he took verses from the four canonical gospels and arranged them into a single narrative, focusing on the actual words of Jesus. This work was never published during Jefferson"s lifetime, but was inherited by his grandson and printed for the first time in the early twentieth century. The original bound manuscript, often referred to as "the Jefferson Bible," is held by the United States National Museum in Washington.