The calling of the nations : exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present / edited by Mark Vessey [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vessey, Mark, editor.

Series:

Green College thematic lecture series.

Green College thematic lecture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Bible teaching.

Nationalism--Religious aspects.

Religion and state.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Boca Raton, Florida ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Gift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-6043-0

1-4426-5949-1

OCLC:

905361939