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93 pages, Nook
First published September 27, 2015
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Albert J. Beveridge
160 books3 followersAlbert Jeremiah Beveridge (October 6, 1862 – April 27, 1927) was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana. He was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Era, and a biographer of justice John Marshall and President Abraham Lincoln.
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August 17, 2026
Well, it started out really strong but devolved rather quickly. Beveridge is reading the Bible very much through early twentieth-century Western eyes, and so many of the assumptions and tropes of that era come out in the way he interprets the stories he relates.
That made much of the book frustrating, but it was at least interesting for another reason. I have encountered descriptions of this particular way of thinking in several other works, and here I got to see it operating firsthand. In that sense, the book became an interesting artifact of its own time even when I found its treatment of the Bible less convincing.
That made much of the book frustrating, but it was at least interesting for another reason. I have encountered descriptions of this particular way of thinking in several other works, and here I got to see it operating firsthand. In that sense, the book became an interesting artifact of its own time even when I found its treatment of the Bible less convincing.
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