000			03623nam a22004933i 4500
001			EBC4669963
003			MiAaPQ
005			20240729130713.0
006			m o d |
007			cr cnu||||||||
008			240724s2011 xx o ||||0 eng d
020			_a9781442660434 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z9780802092410
035			_a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669963
035			_a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669963
035			_a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256477
035			_a(OCoLC)958571158
040			_aMiAaPQ _beng _erda _epn _cMiAaPQ _dMiAaPQ
050		4	_aBL65.N3.C355 2011
100	1		_aVessey, Mark.
245	1	4	_aThe Calling of the Nations : _bExegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c2011.
264		4	_c©2010.
300			_a1 online resource (386 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aCover -- 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.
520			_aThis 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aNationalism.
650		0	_aNationalism-Biblical teaching.
650		0	_aNationalism-Religious aspects.
650		0	_aReligion and state.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aBetcher, Sharon.
700	1		_aDaum, Robert.
700	1		_aMaier, Harry.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aVessey, Mark _tThe Calling of the Nations _dToronto : University of Toronto Press,c2011 _z9780802092410
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4669963 _zClick to View
999			_c114991 _d114991