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

• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Boca Raton, Florida ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.54
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism; Nationalism - Bible teaching; Nationalism - Religious aspects; Religion and state
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): VesseyMark
• Note generali: Gift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The calling of the nations
• ISBN: 1-4426-6043-0; 1-4426-5949-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787598803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Green College thematic lecture series.