This book is a 1951 1st edition, signed by editor and introduction author Henry Wilder Foote.
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, is one of two religious works constructed by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson compiled the manuscripts but never published them. The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1820 by cutting and pasting, with a razor and glue, numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition excludes all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine.
This copy has been edited, with an introduction, by Henry Wilder Foote, who was a notable and influential Unitarian minister.
Foote's grandfather was mayor of Boston, as well as a Congressman, and treasurer of Harvard College. His uncle Charles was president of Harvard from 1869-1909. Foote was chair of a joint Universality and Unitarian commission on hymnals, which compiled a hymnal that was widely used in the Unitarian church. He retired in 1940.
Beacon Press was founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association.
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