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Title The calling of the nations : exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present / edited by Mark Vessey [and others]
Published Toronto ; New York : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Green College thematic lecture series
Green College thematic lecture series.
Contents Introduction. The Bible in the West: a peoples' history? / Mark Vessey -- pt. 1. Biblical possessions. Perhaps God is Irish: Sacred texts as virtual reality machine / Donald Harman Akenson -- Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian mapping of Palestine (with an afterword on Islam) / Nabil I. Matar -- Beyond a shared inheritance: American Jews reclaim the Hebrew Bible / Laura S. Levitt -- Recalling the nation's terrain: narrative, territory, and canon (commentary on part one) / Robert A. Daum -- pt. 2. 2. Confounding narratives. Dominion from sea to sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great, and the exegesis of empire / Harry O. Maier -- Unending sway: the ideology of empire in early Christian Latin thought / Karla Pollmann -- 'The ends of the Earth': the Bible, Bibles, and the other in early Medieval Europe / Ian Wood -- Promised lands, premised texts (commentary on part two) / Mark Vessey -- pt. 3. Colonial and postcolonial readings, premodern ironies. The Amerindian in divine history: the limits of Biblical authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649 / Peter A. Goddard -- Joshua in America: on cowboys, Canaanites, and Indians / Laura E. Donaldson -- Premodern ironies: first nations and chosen peoples / Jace Weaver -- Biblical narrative and the (de)stabilization of the colonial subject (commentary on part three) / Harry O. Maier -- Epilogue: 'Paradise Highway': of global cities and postcolonial reading practices / Sharon V. Betcher
Summary This wide-ranging collection moves from the earliest Pauline and Rabbinic exegesis through Christian imperial and missionary narratives of the late Roman, medieval, and early modern periods to the entangled identity politics of 'mainstream' nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Gift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR)
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Subject Nationalism -- Religious aspects.
Nationalism -- Biblical teaching
Religion and state.
Nationalism.
nationalism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Nationalism
Nationalism -- Biblical teaching
Nationalism -- Religious aspects
Religion and state
Form Electronic book
Author Vessey, Mark
ISBN 9781442660434
1442660430
9781442659490
1442659491