In 1820 Jefferson completed “The Jefferson Bible”. aka. “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth”.
Nice post, btw.
I think what Jefferson did was to cut out the passages of the Gospels where Jesus is quoted directly and paste them on blank pages of a notebook.
To call “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth” by Jefferson a bible is quite a stretch. He removed any hint of Jesus divinity or performing any miracles. It ends with Jesus dead and buried.
Thomas Jefferson is to be admired for a lot of great work. But trying to pass along the moral teachings of Jesus while hiding his divinity and the source of salvation wasn’t one of them.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefJesu.html