Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Sharper Than Any Two-Edged Sword: The Bible in Modern American Protestantism -- 1. The Blood of the Martyr: History, Hagiography, and the Consecration of the English Bible -- 2. Coronation of "King Truth": Bible Revision and the Late-Nineteenth-Century Imagination -- 3. Scripture for the Ecumenical Church: Liberal Protestants and the Making of the RSV Bible -- 4. The Great RSV Controversy: Bible-Burning, Red-Hunting, and the Strange Specter of Unholy Scripture -- 5. The Virgin Text: Evangelicals and Liberals in the Quest for an Undefiled Book -- Epilogue: Virginity Lost, Virginity Regained? Translation and Scripturalism Since 1965 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- A gallery of photos.