Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation

by Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors' subject is the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC: arguably the latest example of a long line of white evangelical institutions aiming to amplify...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108493319
• ISBN13: 9781108493314
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"