First edition. Contents: Introduction: Authority, Identity, and the Bible in the Early Republic; Print-Bible Culture in the Early United States (Creating the American Bible Reader, 1777-1816; Taking a Text: Reading and Referencing the Bible in the Early Nineteenth Century); Beyond Bibles (Joshua, When the Walls Fell: Biblical Roles in Changing Times; ‘Write These Things in a Book’: Scripturalization and Visionary Authority; The Many Bibles of Joseph Smith: Scripturalization in Early National America); Conclusion. Abandoned Quarries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.