Jefferson’s Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

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Jefferson’s Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
On view March 22 through May 27, 2013

This spring the History Colorado Center hosts Jefferson’s Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth—a rare showing from the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Thomas Jefferson assembled this document in 1820 to tell a chronological version of Jesus’s life and distill his moral teachings. The historic volume offers an exclusive insight into the beliefs of the nation’s third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence.

“Jefferson’s volume provides an exclusive insight to the religious and moral beliefs of the writer of the Declaration of Independence and an important thinker in the Age of Enlightenment,” said Harry Rubenstein, curator at the National Museum of American History. “The nation’s third President embraced the West as being an essential part of the new nation and it seems especially fitting that his volume will be going to the History Colorado Center."