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1 online resource (vi, 222 pages : illustrations). |
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Society of Biblical Literature. Biblical scholarship in North America ; number 27 |
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Biblical scholarship in North America ; no. 27.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Mark A. Chancey, Caroll Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers -- PART 1. THE BIBLE AND POLITICS -- The Bible in the presidential elections of 2012, 2008, 2004, and the collapse of American Secularism / Jacques Berlinerblau -- Biblical imagery, the end times, and political action: the roots of Christian support for Zionism and Israel / Yaakov Ariel -- PART 2. THE BIBLE, AMERICA'S FOUNDING ERA, AND AMERICAN IDENTITY -- Does America have a biblical heritage? / John Fea -- "God's new Israel": American identification with Israel ancient and modern / Shalom Goldman -- The image of the Protestant Bible in America / David Morgan -- PART 3. THE BIBLE AND POPULAR CULTURE -- Holy words in Hollywood: DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) and American identity / Adele Reinhartz -- History, memory, and forgetting in Psalm 137 / David W. Stowe -- Comic book Bibles: translation and the politics of interpretation / Rubén Dupertuis -- PART 4. THE BIBLE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS -- Battling over the Bible in public schools: is common ground possible? / Charles C. Haynes -- Public school Bible courses in historical perspective: North Carolina as a case study / Mark A. Chancey. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Bible -- Influence.
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Bible -- History.
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Bible. (OCoLC)fst01356024
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United States -- Church history.
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Christianity and politics -- Biblical teaching.
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BIBLES -- General.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
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RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State.
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Christianity and politics -- Biblical teaching.
(OCoLC)fst00859738
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Chancey, Mark A., editor.
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Meyers, Carol L., editor.
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Meyers, Eric M., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781589839816 1589839811 (DLC) 2014012148 (OCoLC)875240674 |
| ISBN |
9781589839830 (electronic bk.) |
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1589839838 (electronic bk.) |
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