The Bible and the American myth :

The Bible and the American myth : a symposium on the Bible and constructions of meaning edited by Vincent L. Wimbush. - Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c1999. - ix, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Studies in American biblical hermeneutics ; 16 . - Studies in American biblical hermeneutics ; 16. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-188) and indexes.

Series Editor's Preface / Introduction. And the Students Shall Teach Them ... The Study of the Bible and the Study of Meaning Construction / The American Way and the Good Red Road. American Indians, the Christian Right, and the (De)Construction of American Religion / "It's a Small World ..." Abraham Lincoln, the New American Myth, and the Biblical Rhetoric of Unity / Charles Augustus Briggs, Modernism, and the Rise of Biblical Scholarship in Nineteenth-Century America / The Body as Reader. African-Americans, Freedom, and the American Myth / Children of the American Myth. David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the American Bible / Heaven's Gate. Religious Outworldliness American Style / Coda. American Biblical Hermeneutics. Personal Observations on the Liquification of Biblical Studies / Charles Mabee -- Vincent L. Wimbush -- Andrea Smith -- Harold Rhee -- Doug Hill -- Kimberleigh Jordan -- David Saul -- Rosamond Rodman -- Charles Mabee. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

0865546509 (pbk. : alk. paper)

99014470


Bible--Influence--Congresses.
Bible--Use--Congresses.


United States--Civilization--Congresses.

BS538.7 / .B543 1999

220/.0973