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Jefferson’s Bible Returns, Controversial as Ever

By Michael E. Grass
Roll Call Staff
Jan. 20, 2005, 4:14 p.m.

It is a great irony of American history: Thomas Jefferson, the man credited with coining the term “separation of church and state,” wrote his own version of the Bible — and for decades the views in that Bible were imposed on Congress.

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Jefferson’s Bible Returns, Controversial as Ever

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