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The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
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The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
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by Thomas Jefferson
Sales Rank : 92455
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Hardcover: 103 pages
Publisher: Applewood BooksMA August 1, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1557091846
ISBN-13: 978-1557091840
Product Dimensions:
6.5 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
Product Review
"Gives us a preaching Jesus of distinctly human dimensions, without miracles or resurrection. [A] fascinating document, telling us a great deal about a great eighteenth-century mind and its world." -Charles S. Adams, Religious Studies Review "These excerpts from the four Gospels are among the most interesting and compelling in all of the Scripture. They emphasize Jesus' ethical lessons of love, reverence, forbearance, reproachment, repentance, and forgiveness." -Garret Ward Sheldon, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Product Description
Thomas Jefferson believed that the pure-principled teachings of Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of organized religion of the day. This led him to recast, by cutting and pasting from the gospels, a new narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus, where, according to Jefferson, "there will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man."
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