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An interfaith group has released a new textbook aimed at teaching public high school students about the Bible, while avoiding legal and religious disputes.

The nonprofit Bible Literacy Project of Fairfax, Va., spent five years and $2 million developing "The Bible and Its Influence."

The textbook, introduced at a Washington news conference last week, won initial endorsements from experts in literature, religion and church-state law.

Textbook advisor and evangelical literature scholar Leland Ryken, of Wheaton College, called the textbook "a triumph of scholarship and a major publishing event."

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