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Thomas Jefferson completed "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth" in 1820 in an effort to distill Christian doctrine from the words of Christ alone.
Thomas Jefferson, apparently, didn't have any qualms about it. In his retirement, the nation's third president carried out a project he had contemplated for years: He cut and pasted passages from ...
The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson, will be released November 1 by Smithsonian Books. It is the first complete full-color ...
In the museum's paper conservation lab, the Jefferson Bible, is now partially disassembled, a few of its pages are laid out on a table along with color photographs that document the book in its ...
The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...
Rick Santorum’s near-miss in Iowa provides a reminder that, for many Republican voters (and not a few candidates), religion and politics overlap. If you need another reminder, though, consider this: ...
The Jefferson Bible : the life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth, extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French & English / [Thomas Jefferson] -- [v. 2].
Thomas Jefferson had a complicated relationship with the Bible. By the time he was elected the nation’s third president in 1801, the Founding Father had become a champion of separation of church ...
Trump is now selling ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles, but he’s not the first ex-president to repurpose the Bible. Thomas Jefferson did the same.
Trump is now selling ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles, but he’s not the first ex-president to repurpose the Bible. Thomas Jefferson did the same.