Binding: Hardcover
Description: The Ten Commandments need no introduction. In fact we probably think we know all there is to know about these divine dos and don'ts. But as this imaginative and vivid account reveals there is a lot more to this ancient biblical code than Moses and Mount Sinai. Situating the Ten Commandments within the context of modern America prominent historian and engaging story - teller Jenna Weissman Joselit takes the reader from Indian burial mounds in 19th - century Ohio to the sand dunes of 1920s California and into the civic squares of the 1950s to reveal the centrality of the Ten Commandments to the nation's identity. Rich in incident and story and inhabited by a lively cast of characters whose ranks include forgers and filmmakers architects and archaeologists ordinary citizens and politicians this book compels us to take another look at the Ten Commandments and see them afresh. Through a series of deftly - rendered vignettes this compelling account recasts the cultural impact of the Ten Commandments in American society not as a legal code or theological imperative but as a physical material and visual phenomenon. We come away with the understanding that they are not cast in stone but a fertile repository of American history.
Title: Set In Stone America's Embrace Of The Ten Commandments
Author(s): Weissman Joselit Jenna (Charles E. Smith Professor Of Judaic Studies And Professor Of History Director Of Program In Judaic Studies Charles E. Smith Professor Of Judaic Studies And Professor Of History Director Of Program In Judaic Studies George Washington University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190253196
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2017
Category: Christian Life & Practice