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Biblical ideas of nationality : ancient and modern / Steven Grosby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781575065342
  • 1575065347
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Biblical ideas of nationality.DDC classification:
  • 220.8/32054 21
LOC classification:
  • BS1199.N3 G76 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Religion and nationality in antiquity -- Kinship, territory, and the nation in the historiography of ancient Israel -- Sociological implications of the distinction between "locality" and extended "territory" -- The chosen people of ancient Israel and the Occident : why does nationality exist and survive? -- Borders, territory, and nationality in the ancient Near East and Armenia -- ʻAram kulloh and the worship of Hadad : a nation of Aram? -- The category of the primordial in the study of early Christianity and second-century Judaism -- Territoriality -- The nation of the United States and the vision of ancient Israel -- Nationality and religion.
Summary: Annotation. In this collection of essays, drawn from more than a decade of study and publication, Steven Grosby investigates ancient texts (biblical and other) from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. His work is pioneering and provocative and points the way to further research on the idea of nationality in ancient times.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)446039

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Religion and nationality in antiquity -- Kinship, territory, and the nation in the historiography of ancient Israel -- Sociological implications of the distinction between "locality" and extended "territory" -- The chosen people of ancient Israel and the Occident : why does nationality exist and survive? -- Borders, territory, and nationality in the ancient Near East and Armenia -- ʻAram kulloh and the worship of Hadad : a nation of Aram? -- The category of the primordial in the study of early Christianity and second-century Judaism -- Territoriality -- The nation of the United States and the vision of ancient Israel -- Nationality and religion.

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Annotation. In this collection of essays, drawn from more than a decade of study and publication, Steven Grosby investigates ancient texts (biblical and other) from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. His work is pioneering and provocative and points the way to further research on the idea of nationality in ancient times.