Thomas Jefferson completed 'The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth' in 1820 in an effort to distill Christian doctrine from the words of Christ alone.
was a distillation of the teachings of Jesus — minus the religious doctrine of divinity — in which Jefferson, after his presidency, literally cut and pasted together his own new version of the gospels.
The book's existence has largely been ignored by history, even though it offers fascinating insight into a brilliant mind that helped ignite the greatest intellectual revolution in"We must reduce our volume to … the very words only of Jesus. There will be remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man."
"The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth" marked the culmination of decades of research into the Bible, the New Testament specifically, by a giant of human history. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MAY 2 ,1611, KING JAMES BIBLE PUBLISHED, HELPED FUEL REVOLUTION IN AMERICAN COLONIES "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth" begins with Joseph and Mary,"being great with child," traveling to Bethlehem to answer the"decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed" .
The paradox of"The Jefferson Bible" speaks to a rich complexity of thought among the Founding Fathers that defies the simplistic storylines offered by many modern academics.
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