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Encyclopedia entry: Bible, The
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- The Oxford Companion to United States History
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Bible, The.
The Bible has been a nearly universal presence in American history. Christopher
Columbus
thought his voyages had been foretold in Scripture (specifically Isaiah 46:11). Printing began in England's North American colonies with the
Bay Psalm Book
of 1640. Since its founding in 1816, the American Bible Society (ABS) has been a leader in promoting the Scriptures, distributing about four billion complete Bibles, testaments, or selections. The Bible's conspicuous place in American public life is illustrated in
Abraham Lincoln
's second inaugural address, which ascribed much of the tragedy of the
Civil War
to the fact that both North and
South
“read the same Bible.” Even ...
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