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The Bible in the public square : its enduring influence in American life / edited by Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Biblical scholarship in North America ; no. 27.Publisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (vi, 222 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781589839830
  • 1589839838
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bible in the public square.DDC classification:
  • 220.0973 23
LOC classification:
  • BR515 .B547 2014
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)829104

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.