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The Jefferson Bible the life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth

In the early nineteenth century, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, conceived the idea of extracting a gospel purified of what he saw as extraneous philosophical, mythological, and theological elements. To do so, he took verses from the four canonical gospels and arranged them into a single narrative, focusing on the actual words of Jesus. This work was never published during Jefferson's lifetime but was inherited by his grandson and printed for the first time in the early twentieth century. The original bound manuscript, popularly referred to as The Jefferson Bible, is held by the United States National Museum in Washington.

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  • "The fifth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson introduces this recording of the textual extractions which the then President of the United States made from the Gospels. The text, entitled The life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth, tells about the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth."
  • "In the early nineteenth century, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, conceived the idea of extracting a gospel purified of what he saw as extraneous philosophical, mythological, and theological elements. To do so, he took verses from the four canonical gospels and arranged them into a single narrative, focusing on the actual words of Jesus. This work was never published during Jefferson's lifetime but was inherited by his grandson and printed for the first time in the early twentieth century. The original bound manuscript, popularly referred to as The Jefferson Bible, is held by the United States National Museum in Washington."@en
  • "A compact, accessible edition of Thomas Jefferson's classic abridgment of the Bible, in which the American founder sculpted the words and ideas of Christ into a transcendent moral philosophy."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "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 ..."@en
  • "Jefferson believed fervently in the moral teachings of Jesus in spite of the fact that he was labeled an atheist when he ran for the presidency. So he cut out passages from the Gospels that he felt were the true words of Jesus. Jefferson created a philosophy that was to be as close to Jesus' own philosophy as humanly possible."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"
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  • "The Jefferson Bible the life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth"@en
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  • "The Jefferson Bible"
  • "The Jefferson Bible [the life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth]"@en

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