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The Bible in American education : from source book to textbook / edited by David L. Barr and Nicholas Piediscalzi.

Contributor(s): Series: Bible in American culture ; 5. | Centennial publications (Society of Biblical Literature)Publication details: Philadelphia, Pa. : Fortress Press ; Chico, Calif. : Scholars Press, ©1982.Description: 204 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0800606124
  • 9780800606121
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 220/.07/1073 19
LOC classification:
  • BS586.U6 B53 1982
Contents:
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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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) BS 586 .U6 B53 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10607

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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