The Calling of the Nations : Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (386 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction The Bible in the West: A Peoples' History? -- Part One: Biblical Possessions -- 2 Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine -- 3 Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian Mapping of Palestine (with an Afterword on Islam) -- 4 Beyond a Shared Inheritance: American Jews Reclaim the Hebrew Bible -- 5 Recalling the Nation's Terrain: Narrative, Territory, and Canon (Commentary on Part One) -- Part Two: Confounding Narratives -- 6 Dominion from Sea to Sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great, and the Exegesis of Empire -- 7 Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin Thought -- 8 'The Ends of the Earth': The Bible, Bibles, and the Other in Early Medieval Europe -- 9 Promised Lands, Premised Texts (Commentary on Part Two) -- Part Three: Colonial and Postcolonial Readings, Premodern Ironies -- 10 The Amerindian in Divine History: The Limits of Biblical Authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649 -- 11 Joshua in America: On Cowboys, Canaanites, and Indians -- 12 Premodern Ironies: First Nations and Chosen Peoples -- 13 Biblical Narrative and the (De)stabilization of the Colonial Subject (Commentary on Part Three) -- 14 Epilogue 'Paradise Highway': Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading Practices -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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.
9781442660434
Nationalism. Nationalism-Biblical teaching. Nationalism-Religious aspects. Religion and state.