Oklahoma school administrators and educators: If you would like to teach the Bible to your students while making a connection with how the Bible juxtaposes with American culture, you might want to consider using my book MARK TWAIN, BIBLE SCHOLAR: 919 Bible Quotations, References, and Allusions from Mark Twain’s Writings in your school or classroom. It can be ordered from amazon here.
It is also available in hardcover here.
Mark Twain, as you may (or may not) know, was the most famous person in the world during much of his lifetime. Although a sometimes-skeptic of the Bible, Twain was very familiar with its contents, as can be seen by the almost 1,000 thousand examples in MARK TWAIN, BIBLE SCHOLAR.
For samples of the book (to “try before you buy”), see my “Sundays with Mark Twain” series here on substack. Each Sunday for the past several months, I have posted an excerpt from the book here; One example (the most recent) can be found here.
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UPDATE 7/26/2024
An article appeared yesterday which underscores how those who follow the red-rectangled approach below will find what they need in my book: