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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Gutjahr, Paul Charles. "Battling for the Book: The Americanization of the Bible in the Publishing Marketplace, 1777-1860," American Studies Program, University of Iowa, October 1995.
Building upon the interdisciplinary scholarship that has come to be called “History of the Book,” my dissertation examines how a wide range of constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible in preeminent text in the United States in the years preceding the Civil War. I argue that the very means employed to keep the Bible preeminent helped lay the foundation for what the religious historian Grant Wacker has called “the demise of biblical civilization” in the United States. By constantly retranslating the biblical text, changing bible formats, and blurring the line between biblical and fictional stories, Protestants found it increasingly difficult to stress the extraordinary nature of their timeless message when that message changed all the time.
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