“Written in the Style of Antiquity”: Pseudo-Biblicism and the Early American Republic, 1770–1830

Students of early America have overlooked the fact that Americans published numerous pseudo-biblical texts, a practice that peaked from approximately 1770 to 1830. This unique and forgotten tradition of writing “in the style of antiquity” was the product of an age still suffused with the Bible yet a...

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Main Author: Shalev, Eran (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2010
In: Church history
Year: 2010, Volume: 79, Issue: 4, Pages: 800-826
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