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August 12, 2024

How the Hebrew Bible Shaped the American Tongue

And the American soul.

To John Adams, the Bible was “the best book in the world.” And while he had in mind both the Old and New Testaments, the role of the Hebrew Bible per se in shaping the worldview of Adams and other Founding Fathers, and the American ethos itself, was enormous and perhaps without parallel. Stuart Halpern discusses some of these influences, among them one that is insufficiently remarked upon: Scripture’s role, and specifically that of the King James Bible, in shaping the country’s language:

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