TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vessey,Mark
TI  - The calling of the nations: exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present 
T2  - Green College thematic lecture series
SN  - 9781442660434
AV  - BL65.N3 C355 2011eb
U1  - 320.54 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Toronto, New York
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Religion and state
KW  - Nationalisme
KW  - Enseignement biblique
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Religion et État
KW  - nationalism
KW  - aat
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Essays
KW  - Government
KW  - National
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - Gift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR); 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
N2  - 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
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