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By Thomas Jefferson
The Smithsonian is restoring the “Jefferson Bible.” a unique volume the third president cut and pasted himself — omitting lots of theology — from portions of the New Testament.
Thomas Jefferson assembled his version of the Christian bible in 1820, after his retirement. The book, “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,” is an 80 page montage , clipped passages from the Gospels in English, Latin, French and Greek.
IIn Jefferson’s version, Jesus s the nrucified and buried, no resurrection and Jesus ios a man who does no miracles .
Conservators at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will repair the fragile book’s torn pages.
“He never sold it because he didn’t want it to be public,” Harry R. Rubenstein, the chair of the museum’s political history division, told The Washington Post. “He wanted to avoid bringing back the arguments that he was anti-Christian.”
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