" The tight link that Protestants perceive between Scripture and salvation explains the great energy they have poured into studying, distributing, and translating the Scriptures, as well as producing the never-ending deluge of printed material explaining, mediating, parsing, debating, exploring, and riffing on the Bible. "

― Mark A. Noll , In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783