04199nam 2200769 450 991078759880332120230424053704.01-4426-6043-01-4426-5949-110.3138/9781442660434(CKB)3710000000355910(EBL)3297086(SSID)ssj0001436742(PQKBManifestationID)12566584(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001436742(PQKBWorkID)11442108(PQKB)11733960(CEL)436474(OCoLC)905361939(CaBNVSL)slc00235558(DE-B1597)465264(OCoLC)1013938949(OCoLC)944178619(DE-B1597)9781442660434(Au-PeEL)EBL4669963(CaPaEBR)ebr11256477(OCoLC)958571158(MiAaPQ)EBC4669963(MiAaPQ)EBC3297086(OCoLC)861793309(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105946(EXLCZ)99371000000035591020160920h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe calling of the nations exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present /edited by Mark Vessey [and three others]Toronto, [Ontario] ;Boca Raton, Florida ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (386 p.)Green College thematic lecture seriesGift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR).0-8020-9241-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Green College thematic lecture series.NationalismNationalismBible teachingNationalismReligious aspectsReligion and stateElectronic books. Nationalism.NationalismBible teaching.NationalismReligious aspects.Religion and state.320.54Vessey MarkMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787598803321The calling of the nations3723919UNINA