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The Bible in American education : from source book to textbook /

The Bible in American education : from source book to textbook / edited by David L. Barr and Nicholas Piediscalzi. - Philadelphia, Pa. : Chico, Calif. : Fortress Press ; Scholars Press, ©1982. - 204 pages ; 24 cm. - The Bible in American culture ; 5 Centennial publications / Society of Biblical Literature . - Bible in American culture ; 5. Centennial publications (Society of Biblical Literature) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / David L. Barr and Nicholas Piediscalzi -- The creation of a new order : colonial education and the Bible / W. Clark Gilpin -- The struggle for a common culture : biblical images in nineteenth-century schoolbooks / John H. Westerhoff -- The public schools are not enough : the Bible and private schools / Virginia L. Brereton -- Stabilizing a changing culture : the Bible and the Sunday school in the late nineteenth century / William L. Sachs -- Intellectual ferment and instruction in the Scriptures : the Bible in higher education / Thomas H. Olbricht -- New attitudes and new curricula : the changing role of the Bible in Protestant education, 1880-1920 / Charles R. Kniker -- New interest in the Bible : the contexts of Bible study today / Boardman W. Kathan -- The Bible is worthy of secular study : the Bible in public education today / Peter S. Bracher and David L. Barr.

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Bible--Study and teaching--History.--United States
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.--United States
Bible--Study--History--Addresses, essays, lectures--United States.
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History--Addresses, essays, lectures--United States.
Bible.
Bibel.


Geschichte


Church and education--History.--United States
Religious education--History.--United States
Church and education.
Religion.
Religious education.
Study skills.
Bildungswesen.


United States--Religion.
United States.
USA.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

BS586.U6 / B53 1982

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