Gateway Seminary Library

A particularly famous (or INfamous) Bible in the Kuykendall Collection is this facsimile of the Jefferson Bible. A deist, Thomas Jefferson is well known for his liberal excision of various passages of Scripture he found anti-rational, actually physically cutting them from the tome and standing in a redacted, piecemeal form. It stands as a testimony to Francis Turretin's earlier, near-prophetic query, "What will become of this sacred book, if everyone is allowed to wield a consorious pen and play the critic over it?"