Introduction: Sharper than Any Two-Edged Sword: The Bible in Modern
American Protestantism
1: The Blood of the Martyr: History, Hagiography, and the
Consecration of the English Bible
2: Coronation of "King Truth": Bible Revision and Late
Nineteenth-Century Imagination
3: Scripture for the Ecumenical Church: Liberal Protestants and the
Making of the RSV Bible
4: The Great RSV Controversy: Bible-Burning, Red-Hunting, and the
Strange Specter of Unholy Scripture
5: The Virgin Text: Evangelicals and Liberals in the Quest for an
Undefiled Book
Epilogue: Virginity Lost, Virginity Regained? Translation and
Scripturalism since 1965
Awarded the Frank S. and Elizabeth Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History
Peter J. Thuesen is Associate Professor of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
A first-rate intellectual history of Protestants' elusive quest for the perfect English translation of the Bible. Publishers Weekly yields a veritable cornucopia of insights into Protestant Bible translation ... a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the history of English Bible translation in the United States. Christianity Today
A first-rate intellectual history of Protestants' elusive quest for the perfect English translation of the Bible. Publishers Weekly yields a veritable cornucopia of insights into Protestant Bible translation ... a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the history of English Bible translation in the United States. Christianity Today
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