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The Bible in the American experience / edited by Claudia Setzer and David A. Shefferman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bible and Its Reception SerPublisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 301 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0884144380
  • 9780884144380
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Bible in the American experienceDDC classification:
  • 220.0973 23
LOC classification:
  • BS538.7 .B56 2020
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Bible and Bibles in America (Lori Anne Ferrell) -- 2. The Bible and Digital Media (Jeffrey S. Siker) -- 3. The Bible and Popular Culture (Jason A. Wyman Jr.) -- 4. The Bible in American Literature (M. Cooper Harriss) -- 5. The Bible and Visual Art in America (Aaron Rosen) -- 6. The Bible and American Music (Joseph Orchard) -- 7. The Bible, Law, and Political Rhetoric (Steven K. Green) -- 8. The Bible and the Curriculum of American Public Schools (K-12) in the Twenty-First Century (Mark A. Chancey) -- 9. But Is It Useful?: The Perennial Problem of American Biblical Scholarship and Higher Education (Davina C. Lopez) -- 10. The Bible and Social Reform: Musings of a Biblical Scholar (Emerson B. Powery) -- Contributors -- Biblical Index -- General Index.
Summary: "This collection of essays evaluates how the Bible continues to influence American art, literature, music, politics, education, and social movements. In this one-volume update of the Society of Biblical Literature's Bible in American Culture series of the 1980s, contributors illustrate how biblical themes infuse US culture and are in turn transformed by it"-- Provided by publisher.
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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)2593796

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"This collection of essays evaluates how the Bible continues to influence American art, literature, music, politics, education, and social movements. In this one-volume update of the Society of Biblical Literature's Bible in American Culture series of the 1980s, contributors illustrate how biblical themes infuse US culture and are in turn transformed by it"-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2020).

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Bible and Bibles in America (Lori Anne Ferrell) -- 2. The Bible and Digital Media (Jeffrey S. Siker) -- 3. The Bible and Popular Culture (Jason A. Wyman Jr.) -- 4. The Bible in American Literature (M. Cooper Harriss) -- 5. The Bible and Visual Art in America (Aaron Rosen) -- 6. The Bible and American Music (Joseph Orchard) -- 7. The Bible, Law, and Political Rhetoric (Steven K. Green) -- 8. The Bible and the Curriculum of American Public Schools (K-12) in the Twenty-First Century (Mark A. Chancey) -- 9. But Is It Useful?: The Perennial Problem of American Biblical Scholarship and Higher Education (Davina C. Lopez) -- 10. The Bible and Social Reform: Musings of a Biblical Scholar (Emerson B. Powery) -- Contributors -- Biblical Index -- General Index.