| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Green College thematic lecture series
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Green College thematic lecture series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Gift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Religious aspects.
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Nationalism -- Religious aspects. |
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Nationalism -- Biblical teaching.
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Nationalism -- Biblical teaching. |
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Nationalism. |
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Religion and state.
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Religion and state. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Vessey, Mark.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Calling of the nations 9780802092410 (DLC) 2011381379 (OCoLC)651903028 |
| ISBN |
9781442660434 electronic book |
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1442660430 electronic book |
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9781442659490 electronic book |
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1442659491 electronic book |
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9780802092410 |
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0802092411 |
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