The Bible

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The Bible

• The role of the bible in North American culture.

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• After World War II the market for new versions
  began to increase. Some of the most popular
  include the
• The Revised Standard Version
• The New English Bible
• The Jerusalem Bible
• The New American Bible
• The Living Bible
• The Good News Bible
• The New International Version
• Although the King James version continues to
  outsell all other versions.

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• Interesting Fact
• It is estimated that since WWII, American
  Publishers have printed two Bibles for every one
  American. (Noll, 402)

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• Since its founding in 1816 the American Bible
  Society (founded after the British had created
  theres in 1804) has distributed nearly 4 billion
  complete Bibles, testaments, portions of
  scripture, and selections.

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the Gideon hordes of loyal Canadians repelled
and scattered for more than two years, the Midian
and Amalekite thousands of democratic invaders
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