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Neither a defense of atheism nor a call to belief

albeit in different premodern forms: from urban planning and international trade networks to religious pluralism and academic research

Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture Vägledning as well as at SuffolkHow 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