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This collection of essays evaluates how the Bible continues to influence American art, literature, music, politics, education, and social movements. In this one-volume update of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Bible in American Culture series of the 1980s, contributors illustrate how biblical themes infuse US culture and are in turn transformed by it.
Claudia Setzer is Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. Her books include The Bible and American Culture: A Sourcebook (2011, with David Shefferman), Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (2004), and Jewish Responses to Early Christians (1994). She is currently writing a book on the use of the Bible in progressive movements.
David Shefferman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. His publications include The Bible and American Culture: A Sourcebook (2011, with Claudia Setzer) and a number of articles about the emergence of Afro-Cuban studies. He is currently working on Fictions of Santeria, an examination of notions of narrative truthfulness in African-inflected Caribbean practices and in representations of them in popular literature, music, film, and ethnography.
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