{"product_id":"the-enlightenment-bible-translation-scholarship-culture-9780691118871","title":"The Enlightenment Bible: Translation  Scholarship  Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? In this book  Jonathan Sheehan shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed the Bible from a book justified by theology to one justified by culture. In doing so  the Bible was made into the cornerstone of Western heritage and invested with meaning  authority  and significance even for a secular age.  The Enlightenment Bible offers a new history of the Bible in the century of its greatest crisis and  in turn  a new vision of this century and its effects on religion. Although the Enlightenment has long symbolized the corrosive effects of modernity on religion  Sheehan shows how the Bible survived  and even thrived in this cradle of ostensible secularization. Indeed  in eighteenth-century Protestant Europe  biblical scholarship and translation became more vigorous and culturally significant than at any time since the Reformation. From across the theological spectrum  European scholars--especially German and English--exerted tremendous energies to rejuvenate the Bible  reinterpret its meaning  and reinvest it with new authority.  Poets  pedagogues  philosophers  literary critics  philologists  and historians together built a post-theological Bible  a monument for a new religious era. These literati forged the Bible into a cultural text  transforming the theological core of the Judeo-Christian tradition. In the end  the Enlightenment gave the Bible the power to endure the corrosive effects of modernity  not as a theological text but as the foundation of Western culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276779315253,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691118876","price":125.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691118871.jpg?v=1780562662","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-enlightenment-bible-translation-scholarship-culture-9780691118871","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}