Ebook {Epub PDF} The Jefferson Bible [Illustrated] by Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and primary author of The Declaration of Independence, completed his version of the Bible in about —many years after he served as president. What Jefferson did is pick and choose the parts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John he liked or agreed with, cut them out of the Gospels, then pasted them into a new document in the order he . The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. by. Thomas Jefferson. · Rating details · 2, ratings · reviews. Thomas Jefferson believed that the pure-principled teachings of Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of organized religion of the day. This led him to recast, by cutting and pasting Cited by: The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, as it is properly titled was Thomas Jefferson's version of the New Testament. Jefferson adapted the teachings of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural parts along with areas that he felt were added by the Four Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John/5(77).

Thomas Jefferson was known as an inventor and tinkerer. But this time he was tinkering with something held sacred by hundreds of millions of people: the Bible. "The Jefferson Bible" was created by Thomas Jefferson in as a collection of the Biblical teachings of Jesus that he found sound, with passages that Jefferson found unreasonable, such as miracles and the resurrection, removed. Alyssa Roat Contributing Writer 10 Jul Thomas Jefferson. The Jefferson Bible The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth was created in by Thomas Jefferson. He was seventy-seven years old when he constructed his book by cutting excerpts of the New Testament Gospels from six printed volumes published in English, French, Latin and Greek.

Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Thomas Jefferson's Bible. The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, is one of two religious works constructed by Thomas Jefferson. The first, The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in , but no copies exist today. The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, as it is properly titled was Thomas Jefferson's version of the New Testament. Jefferson adapted the teachings of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural parts along with areas that he felt were added by the Four Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus.