The Jefferson Bible: The Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth
by Thomas Jefferson /
2010 / English / PDF
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In the early nineteenth century, Thomas Jefferson, the third
president of the United States and the principal author of the
Declaration of Independence, conceived the idea of extracting a
gospel purified of what he saw as extraneous philosophical,
mythological, and theological elements. To do so, he took verses
from the four canonical gospels and arranged them into a single
narrative, focusing on the actual words of Jesus. This work was
never published during Jefferson's lifetime but was inherited by
his grandson and printed for the first time in the early twentieth
century. The original bound manuscript, popularly referred to as
The Jefferson Bible, is held by the United States National Museum
in Washington.
In the early nineteenth century, Thomas Jefferson, the third
president of the United States and the principal author of the
Declaration of Independence, conceived the idea of extracting a
gospel purified of what he saw as extraneous philosophical,
mythological, and theological elements. To do so, he took verses
from the four canonical gospels and arranged them into a single
narrative, focusing on the actual words of Jesus. This work was
never published during Jefferson's lifetime but was inherited by
his grandson and printed for the first time in the early twentieth
century. The original bound manuscript, popularly referred to as
The Jefferson Bible, is held by the United States National Museum
in Washington.
