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The German Bible in America : an exploration of the religious and cultural legacy of the first European-language Bible printed in America / by Don Yoder ; edited, with supplements by Patrick J. Donmoyer.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA BS 447.5 .U6 G4 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoder, Don, author.
- Series:
- Annual publication series of the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center ; Volume V
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--German--History.
- Bible.
- Bible--Publication and distribution--United States.
- Printing--United States.
- Printing.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Morgantown, PA : Masthof Press, [2016]
- Place of Publication:
- Kutztown, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2016.
- Contents:
- In Memoriam: Dr. Don Yoder, Father of American Folk Life, 1921-2015 / by Patrick J. Donmoyer
- Introduction / by Patrick J. Donmoyer
- The German Bible in America
- The European background
- German Bibles in Colonia America
- German Bible publication in America: the Saur Bibles
- Nineteenth-century Bibles before the Civil War
- The Victorian family Bible
- The Bible in American German culture
- Marketing the Bible
- The apocrypha in Pennsylvania
- Bible translation into German dialects
- Conclusion
- Gallery of Bible illustrations.
- Notes:
- Volume V of the annual publication series of the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania-- title page verso.
- Contains: In Memoriam: Dr. Don Yoder, Father of American Folk Life, 1921-2015 by Patrick J. Donmoyer.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Credit Line -- 1. Der Frommen Lotterie [The Holy Lottery] by Gerhard Tersteegen, 1744 (DAMS 14187), Am 1744 Ter Ac 215, on page 117; 2. Israel Daniel Rupp portrait (DAMS 4517), HSP Portrait Collection [V88], on page 132; 3. âÂÂBekantmachungâ [notice declaring intent to print a German Bible] by Christoph Sauer, 1741 (DAMS 11500), AbG [1741
- ISBN:
- 9781601265012
- 1601265018
- 9781601265005
- 160126500X
- OCLC:
- 958279864
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