The Jefferson Bible - Softcover

Thomas Jefferson; Everett, Percival

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888451629 ISBN 13: 9781888451627

Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

Acclaimed author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.

Percival Everett’s novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid [A Novel] ruffled many Confederate feathers.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Akashic Books presents a thought-provoking series of early writings from United States Presidents, starting this season with George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, and moving chronologically forward. Each slim book offers an introduction and additional commentary by a groundbreaking contemporary writer. This series is unlike any other Presidential commentaries in print, and is characterized by a critical viewpoint that will provide a counterpoint to the more staid analyses that have traditionally accompanied Presidential writings.

From the Inside Flap:

Thomas Jefferson believed that the pure-principled teachings of Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of organized religion of the day. This led him to recast, by cutting and pasting from the gospels, a new narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus.

About this edition

• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1888451629
• ISBN 13: 9781888451627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 65