{"product_id":"gods-last-words-david-s-katz-9780300197907","title":"God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first translations in the sixteenth century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the twentieth century. David Katz re-creates the response of readers from different eras by examining the \"horizon of expectations\" that provided the lens through which they read.\u003cbr\u003eDuring the Renaissance, says Katz, learned men rushed to apply the tools of textual analysis to the Testaments, fully confident that God's Word would open up and reveal shades of further truth. Other developments that altered readers' experiences included the politics of the English Civil War, Newtonian and Darwinian scientific theory, the rise of the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, and geology, and the development of the novel and a concept of authorial copyright. Katz discusses all of these and more, concluding with the growth of fundamentalism in America, which brought biblical interpretation back to the Lutheran certainty of a demonstrable authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David S. Katz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 030019790X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300197907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.85d","brand":"David S. Katz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425005093119,"sku":"9780300197907","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b15ee876-7933-4248-bd9b-21bf5335eb7c.jpg?v=1761536344","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gods-last-words-david-s-katz-9780300197907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}