tolkien's copy of the bible and i had a nice protective case made for it but he had a simple bible. it was printed in 1947. this was in the middle of writing lord of the rings. he was writing it from 1937-1954. you can see a beautiful, recognizable signature in the front but what most interests me about this book is the fact that he annotated this book and made comments in the margin, you can see he is making comments in greek, comparing it to 7 different versions of the bible, making things with a better transition of this brief, the original greek, and so j.r.r. tolkien's bible, the one he had when he was writing lord of the rings. it is worth over 10 million. there are a few books worth over 1 million apiece. although i have books as low as in the hundred dollars but that is the starting level for the books that i have. what i enjoy about the rare books is a treasure hunt. findings them. and realizing in these older books they have a different feel, a different look and often a different story depending on who owns the books, some added story within a story. this is the perfect p

i specialize in rare bibles, bible's from the past 70 years. being in utah i specialize in early mormon books, classic literature and early american history. one of the items i enjoy click in our bibles or religious text that belong to well-known historical figures and being from utah one of the more popular items that i like to show people as brigham young's copy of the "book of mormon"'s. it's housed in the most protect the clamshell but this is according to family tradition this is the copy of the "book of mormon"'s on brigham young's nightstand when he died in 1877 and if you open it up to the title page you can see brigham young's signature. another one of my, i enjoy early american history and this is really one of the most important books printed in the america pre-1800 it's an original copy of thomas paine's common sense which was printed in philadelphia. it was on third street in philadelphia and if you go there today you will see a brass sign saying players -- here's where commonsense common sense was printed january 9, 1776. there is

i specialize in four different areas, i specialize in rare bibles, older bibles, bibles over 500 years being in utah i specialize in early mormon books, classics in literature and early american history. one of the items i enjoy collecting our bibles or religious texts that belong to well-known historical figures and being from utah, one of the more popular items that i like to showcase is brigham young's copy of the book of mormon. >> its house in b protective clamshell but this is according to family tradition, this is a copy of the book of mormon that was on brigham young's nightstand when he died in 1877 and if you open it up to the title page, you can seebrigham young's signature . another one, i enjoy early american history. and this is really one of the most important books printed in america pre-1800 and it's a original copy of thomas paine's common sense which was printed in philadelphia, the printer was robert bell area around third street in philadelphia and if you go there today you will see a brass fact, here is where it was printed january 9 1776. >> it was a little like

i enjoy collecting bibles that belong to historical figures. i also like to share brigham young's copy of the book of mormon. it is housed in a nice protective clamshell. according to family tradition, this is a copy of the book of mormon that was on his nightstand when he died in 1877. you can see his signature on the title page. i enjoy early american history. this is one of the most important books printed in america. it's thomas paine's common sens sense. it was robert bell on third street in philadelphia. if you go there today you will see a boxing here's where common sense was printed, 1776. it was like. it's quite rare and printed three times in january of 1776. thomas paine went to robert bell wanted to have this printed in one of the proceeds to buy a soldier's mittens. after just three printings they had a falling out. thomas paine allowed anyone to print it for you lower the price and that's one reason the book is so well-known and printed and has the designation of the highest saturation of any book printed in america. my favorite f

you went with bibles?orrect, we had something to worship with but we kept it to ourselves. i was told it was quite safe as long as we kept our worship and prayer to ourselves it was not something to worry about. we went in to see the land and engage in different conversations, without vandalising people theere. it seems you are treading a difficult, grey line, because as we all know, christianity, for people inside north korea, it is forbidden. if they possess a bible they can face extreme criminal punishment. by going in with a missionary mission and to be intent to signal to those people in north korea your christian purpose, were you not running risks both for yourself and the people you were meeting? it was perfectly 0k to bring a bible as a tourist into north korea. as long as we keep the bible to ourselves, it should not be any problem. what about the chats you had, the hymns you sang with north korean people in close attendance? the prayers? at one point, i believe you said that you prayed that jesu

unlike the regent's prayer in new york, the bible is in fact the bible and the word of god so that did mobilize evangelicals i think probably more than roe v wade would. that one tended to have consequences that rolled out later down the road, but justice black, who was instrumental in these 1960s opinions, he was receiving hundreds of death threats a day from people upset about these decisions and then just also lots of critical mail from evangelicals who didn't necessarily commit death threats. but mailing anything to the supreme court is incredibly rare. they do not get mail. so to get hundreds of letters about a decision every day was just -- it was unimaginable before it happened. >> let me come at that from just a little different angle. i lived in massachusetts at the time of the decision, and the bible read there in the public schools was the dewey version of the bible so catholics were reading their own version. and i've done some work on the public support or opposition to that, and evangelicals weren't very distinctive. main line protestants and catholics, everyone was oppos

jerry fallwell attract the baptist bible fundamentalists. had lots of people on his mailing list but it really never was much of an organization nationally. pat robertson attracted mostly penal pentecostals and didn't extend far in any other direction. it tends to be a pattern. since these organizations depend on the voluntary subscriptions of individuals and contributions of individuals, one of the things that many of these organizations, like organizations on the left, have to do is take relatively extreme positions in order to raise money. we know that direct mail fund-raising, for example, tends to emphasize divisive, highly combustible kind of rhetoric. and, if you do that, you are going to limit your appeal across the broader community. and also, you're likely to wear out your welcome even with the enthusiasts who initially support you. there are a whole variety of things like that. if you are doing that, by the way, you also tend to attract the hostile attention of the media and groups on the other side of the political spectrum, and

context performing what we would call a historical criticism of the bible. seeing it as a historical document. something that you could go back and question why did they write this the way that they did? what you find from that is that here he is doing this when probably most of us are not really questing the way that he did. i think that what is really striking is that he's doing this at 13, 14, 15 years old, at a time when most of us kind of accept things without too much deeper thought about it. so he goes through this period of questioning. and he goes to kelsey's course and he teaches him the rudiments of how do you look at the bible as a 'tis torquhistorical docum something that he is really drawn to. later, he goes off to seminary, he finds that going to this very liberal and what i mean by liberal is that within the spectrum of seminaries, there are those that teach the bible as the word of god, don't question even a single word, to the other extreme of saying that this is something that you could question just like any other historical document. in

i heard you say before and i think you partially expressed it here as well the bible other holy books and god are completely irrelevant when they are trying to understand how they will work as god never comes up in the world is not just about physics the world is about emotions that world is about the sense of community the world is about and religion and ideology will occur it's not just religion there's ideology whether it's communism capitalism those ideologies and religion have played an incredible part of human history they still do but what i want to point out for people is some people think that somehow god is significant in science and that's not the case i've been a physicist for forty years not at one scientific meeting i've ever heard the word god come up because i understand the universe and everything goes on with with it we don't have to talk to mr krauss your book is about the evolution of physics but there has also been an evolution of faith and most really want to nice religion absolutely if you go there if you go to the mosque if you go to the church they're trying t

there was a sacred book always the holy bible. when george washington was inaugurated, sworn in as the first president it was on a masonic bible. but the text on that bible is different to the next of that time. free masons were and are a philanthropic society. they claim to be about making men moral and better. they see christianity in particular as furthering that end. and they encourage it. so many, many of the early founders were free masons. some of them were orthodox christians. some of them weren't. free masonry as i understand it at the time was sort of the lowest common denominator moral organization and embraced the teachings of christianity as expressions of this greater kind of humanitarian and humanist impulse. okay, well, thank you very much and look forward to -- [ applause ] >>> coming up on lectures in history on c-span 3, a look at how puritans dealt with those who separate from the group's believes in early colonial america. then later a look back at dr. martin luther king's career as a reverend. after that we l

has trademarked the bible verse numbers 3:16. it is the most inappropriate case of commercializing the bible since king solomon's baby-sized ginsu knives. "cut that baby in one swipe!" ( laughter ) now, the w.w.e. trademarked 3:16 refers to one of the bible's most quoted verses, john 3:16: "for god so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that those who believe in him shall not die but have eternal life." or, as the w.w.e. will now put it, "christ-a-mania is running wild! woo, baby!" ( cheers and applause ) now, let me explain how this all happened. stone cold steve austin started using 3:16 when he beat jake "the snake" roberts in the "king of the ring" match in 1996. roberts had been using john 3:16 as part of his entrance routine and character. here's what austin said when he beat him: >> talk about your psalms, talk about john 3:16. austin 3:16 says i just whupped your ass. >> stephen: this is not the first run-in jesus has had with the w.w.e. anyone who's read their bible knows jesus was betrayed by judea's famous wres

i specialize in bibles from the past 500 years, i specialize in early mormon

the bible, jacob wrestles through a long night. possibly with himself. the bible says an angel. that the ends of the night and with the break of dawn he comes to the realization of who he is and he adopts a new name, israel. lincoln wrestles through a long night and his long dark night for lincoln, he enters it coming home to springfield after one term in congress. he ends it by founding the illinois republican party and adopting his own new identity and emerging with his cause. against slavery. so this is the story of howco lincoln became the man that is recognizable to us today. if we met lincoln at the beginning of the story we would not recognize him as the lincoln of history. by the end, he is lincoln. the so interesting. i want to get into lincoln the man. but you do a wonderful job of setting the stage for all these, events, the politics, the history, the culture. ends its first talk about this fascinating 16th president. in recent years he used depicted as melancholy, was he depressed people ask? think you have an interesting take on the. i'm wondering if you can read a

the bible says an angel. and at the end of the night, and with the break of dawn, he comes to a realization of who he is and he adopts a new name. israel. lincoln wrestles through a long night, it's his long, dark night of the soul, for lincoln. the last years. he enters it coming home to springfield after one term in the congress, and he ends it by founding the illinois republican party, and adopting his own new identity, and emerging with husband -- his cause against slavery. this is the story of how lincoln became the man that is recognizable to us today. if we met lincoln at the beginning of the story we would not recognize him as lincoln of history. by the end he is lincoln. >> host: so interesting. want to get into lincoln the man and also you do a wonderful job of sort of settling the stage for all these events, through the politics, history, culture, and let's first talk about the fascinating 16th president. recent years he is sort of depicted as melancholy. was he depressed? could you read about it?

the bible is the oldest documents that challenges hatred. the old testament to treat the stranger as a native, because our ancestors knew what slavery was all about. and in matthew love the stranger, saying i was hungry and you gave me food. i was thirsty and you gave me drink, and i was a stranger and you welcomed me in. brothers and sisters, it's not just our neighbors we must love and treat with respect, it's all god's children. all god's children deserve respect, dignity, security, hospitality and comfort. we're all children of one god and everything we say or do must follow from that basic truth. who are we to turn away and ignore poverty in the midst of the enormous wealth of this great country and land aplenty. who are we to turn away and ignore injustice in a nation with a constitution and a set of laws guarantee equal protection and the right to vote in this country, brothers and sisters. and who are we to refuse to care for this world and give it the stewardship that god expects of us. we must heed the voices of the prophet and we

the hebrew bible has a whole set of obligations to fellow human beings, obligations to the rest of the animal world, obligations to the natural world. and wild life plants that are kind of encumbent upon all kind of people and especially jews to satisfy. and some of them i grew up with. i grew up in a traditional home and this was part of the language of the house. the first one was called bal tashfit and it's don't be wasteful. take the food that you need . don't throw that away. you can't play with that it's food. so this general motion of non harming and non wasting it's part of the biblical heritage. >>> another one is the prohibition of hurting the animal life. if you have a pet you have to feed your pet first. always to tend to them first and to tend to them above all else. even the pab -- maybe the famous jewish norm. that milk comes from the mammal and coming the meat along with the milk almost has a kind of insensitivity to it. to the very animal that you're eating but nevertheless these imparives are cultivating to animal life. again the biblical and heritage instruct in term

he found a newspaper and three bibl bibles. >> going to go on the antique road show there. >> the phils continue their west coast road trip in san diego and a pair of rookies came up big but was it enough? we've got the highlights next in sports. >> and this is one of two dogs their family says are heros. find out what they did >>> back now on cbs3 eyewitness news this morning. there's some afternoon baseball on tap for the phillies in san diego. >> the phillies first hit in last night's game was the first ever home run for the catcher. the padres came right back in the bottom of the fifth and they never looked back. padres win 8-4. training camp for the eagles now officially own. >> here's a look at what's next for the birds. >> the birds will have a walk-through this morning then head to the team hotel and they host the bills tomorrow night at the link. they held a practice after an opener that included four turnovers in green bay. >> to do better. i want to see us take care of the football better. i felt like we were sloppy and loose in the second half. >> we've got to stay ahead of

the bible says an angel. at the ends of the night, and with the break of dawn, he comes to a realization of who he is and adopts a new name. israel. lincoln wrestles through a long night. it is a long, dark night. the last years. he enters it coming home to springfield. after one term in the congress. he ends it by founding the illinois republican party. and adopting his own new identity and emerging with his cause. . so this is the story of how lincoln became the man that is recognizable to us today. if we met lincoln at the beginning of this story, we would not recognize him as the lincoln of history. by the end he is lincoln. >> so interesting. i want to get into lincoln the man but also you do a wonderful job of setting the stage for all of these events through the politics and culture. let's talk about this fascinating president. in recent years is depicted as melancholy, was he depressed? people ask. but i think you have a really interesting take on that. i'm just wondering if you can read a bit about i

deal," but the bible is far, far, far superior, right? seth: not only is the bible better than "the art of the deal," it's also the opposite. [ light laughter ] the only thing they have in common is that trump has never read either of them. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] now one moment -- one moment that best illustrated trump's unfamiliarity with the bible is when he referred to second corinthians, during a speech at liberty university, but called it something else. >> i hear this is a major theme right here, but 2 corinthians, right? 2 corinthians, 3:17, that's the whole ball game. [ light laughter ] >> seth: 2 corinthians, like it's a sequel to an action movie. [ light laughter ] "who can forget the famous line from 'too fast 2 corinthians' -- [ light laughter ] when vin diesel said to jesus, hey, long hair, pop the clutch and let's ride." [ cheers and applause ] and then, there's the question of trump's church attendance. based on where he spends his sundays, it's likely his most common prayer is "god, please don't let me hit it

it is a stanley of the book of the bible.he interesting thing about this was a pastor son years ago. his son was a pilot who crashed and the whole crew died. how thisbout particular pastor has lived and dealt with the trials of life including losing a son. it is a very good book. a really in-depth study from that particular book of the bible. most of the time, and throughout this summer i am a real big history off. book, scald sacred fire, it is about a lot of history with the founding fathers. i am going to be reading that. it is a pretty thick book. that is my time reading. if i am not reading bills that is what i am reading. >> we want to know what you are reading, send us your list at book tv. or at instagram. page ato our facebook facebook.com/book tv. book tv on c-span two. television for serious book readers. c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> tonight on c-span a ta

my suggestion to you, all of you and i must say and we must the genesis of the bible and also in the when the board was abroad and yes -- listen through your phone, why should we be thinking bout the bible here as we're having this discussion? obama because in the beginning od made everybody, you, me, everybody, the world, the earth, he made us people. beverly, answer through your phone there. call us back again, we'll continue to have the discussion. jeff in nebraska, line for republicans. jeff, go ahead. really think that it is time, i mean, we've done years and for so many sxha ahead and e go deploy fthey will allow it, japan weapon necessary and okinawa, and maybe thailand, they were accept them. philippines, any allies over them, just ill take go ahead and do it. with.t over and maybe that will change the interim, hina and the we ought to start doing trade we in our own, in south america, in central same a, we can get the product from them and help them and to hell with china. jeff, would you worry about all the countries having years to apons in come? caller: absolutely not, wh

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both sides read the same bible. both declared that providence was on their side. and yet we have this bloody battle that cost so many american lives. if we look at the real history here, the real challenges -- i grew up in mississippi. that whiteallenges christian churches, especially in the south -- they were supporters of slavery. they were supporters of jim crow laws in the south, and segregation. the same people who are sitting on deacons boards in baptist churches were sitting on the white citizens councils, staunchly defending segregation. i sort of appreciate the sentiment, but i think we have to grapple with our history. i think that is why the confederate monuments are coming back that we have to talk about. i think one of the things we have to do is honestly grapple with our history, and russell -- white christians have to wrestle with the fact that they staunchly supported discrimination, segregation, and racism through much of their history. host: we go to texas, willie, a republican. caller: good day. -- the ladyquickly who just called before me, she

i'm part of a bible stud, members' bible study here in the capitol. and our teacher, dr. scott redd who's the president he

julie: one of president trump's evangelical's advisors says he believes the bible gives him the who knewt phones would start doing everything? entertaining us, getting us back on track and finding us dates. phones really have changed. so why hasn't the way we pay for them? introducing xfinity mobile. you only pay for data and can easily switch between pay per gig and unlimited. no one else lets you do that. see how much you can save when you choose by the gig or unlimited. call or go to xfinitymobile.com. xfinity mobile. it's a new kind of network, designed to save you money. julie: pastor robert jeffress saying god has given the president the moral authority to take out north korean leader kim jong-un. lauren green has more. >> they will be met with fire and fury. reporter: president trump preaching hell and damnation against north korean leader kim jong-un. but robert jeffress. the pastor of first baptist dallas and a fox news contributor says trump has god's blessing to take out the testy tyrant. >> the bible gives president trump to use whatever force necessary to take out an evil-do

if you cannot read the bible -- uh. host: we are listening. caller: hello?pulpu can watch samuel jackson said those words before he shot that young man in the head. i do not know why america is walking in so much fear, but if our president we have right now cannot handle this mess in this world, then god is going to come handle it. host: ok. robert in louisiana, democrat. caller: how are you doing? host: good morning. caller: good morning to you. i want to say one thing. donald trump is doing a fantastic job. i think everybody in the united states should leave the man to do his job. and also, i have to say, i want to say this -- i have heard they are starting to insert chips in employees in different companies. i want to know what he will do about that. host: we are going to tom in denver, good morning, thank you for watching. what are your comments? caller: my comments are related to, i feel like this is another version of george bush circa 1999, when we wanted to be the world police, but we found ourselves in iraq before the end of his first term. what hap

in disciples got in with him the bible says the storm came up suddenly and it was so violent that the fisherman new boats and thought that they were going to sink. it dawned on them jesus was in andboat or they wake him up they say lord, don't you care we are about to perish and he says he of little faith and he stood becamehe rebuked and it instantly calm. much, who is so this who has the power over the wind? let me tell you, the lord, jesus christ, is still here. he will not forsake you and we are thrilled the governor is here today and the vice president of the united states and his wife. i want to offer a little low -- word of prayer. let's pray. heavenly father, we thank you that you sentus, your son from heaven to this earth, and we pray for this community. we pray for all the residents of this church in the other church. lord, we pray the recovery will calm and you will bring an army of volunteers from across the country to come help them to rebuild. we thank you today for the governor and the vice president that they would come see for themselves the situation. so we ask that