Biblical Ideas of Nationality, Ancient and Modern

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grosby, Steven Elliott, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Jewish.

History.

Religion--Religion, Politics & State.

Religion.

History--Middle East--General.

Political science--Political Ideologies--Nationalism & Patriotism.

Political science.

Jewish nationalism.

Religion and state.

Nationalism--Middle East.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Religious aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Warsaw : Eisenbrauns, Incorporated Jan. 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation In this collection of essays, drawn from more than a decade of study and publication, Steven Grosby investigates ancient texts (biblical and other) from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. His work is pioneering and provocative and points the way to further research on the idea of nationality in ancient times.

Contents:

Religion and nationality in antiquity

Kinship, territory, and the nation in the historiography of ancient Israel

Sociological implications of the distinction between "locality" and extended "territory"

The chosen people of ancient Israel and the Occident : why does nationality exist and survive?

Borders, territory, and nationality in the ancient Near East and Armenia

ʻAram kulloh and the worship of Hadad : a nation of Aram?

The category of the primordial in the study of early Christianity and second-century Judaism

Territoriality

The nation of the United States and the vision of ancient Israel

Nationality and religion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781575065342

1575065347

OCLC:

747412043