The calling of the nations : exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present / edited by Mark Vessey [and others].
- Published:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2011
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 371 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Vessey, Mark
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction The Bible in the West: A Peoples' History? -- 2.Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine / Mark Vessey -- 3.Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian Mapping of Palestine (with an Afterword on Islam) / Donald Harman Akenson -- 4.Beyond a Shared Inheritance: American Jews Reclaim the Hebrew Bible / Nabil I. Matar -- 5.Recalling the Nation's Terrain: Narrative, Territory, and Canon (Commentary on Part One) / Laura S. Levitt -- 6.Dominion from Sea to Sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great, and the Exegesis of Empire / Robert A. Daum -- 7.Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin Thought / Harry O. Maier -- 8.'The Ends of the Earth': The Bible, Bibles, and the Other in Early Medieval Europe / Karla Pollmann -- 9.Promised Lands, Premised Texts (Commentary on Part Two) / Ian Wood -- 10.The Amerindian in Divine History: The Limits of Biblical Authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649 / Mark Vessey -- 11.Joshua in America: On Cowboys, Canaanites, and Indians / Peter A. Goddard -- 12.Premodern Ironies: First Nations and Chosen Peoples / Laura E. Donaldson -- 13.Biblical Narrative and the (De)stabilization of the Colonial Subject (Commentary on Part Three) / Jace Weaver -- 14.Epilogue 'Paradise Highway': Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading Practices / Harry O. Maier.
- Summary:
- Current ideas of nationhood, communal identity, territorial entitlement, and collective destiny are profoundly rooted in historic interpretations of the Bible. Interweaving elements of history, theology, literary criticism, and cultural theory, the essays in this volume discuss the ways in which biblical understandings have shaped Western - and particularly European and North American - assumptions about the nature and meaning of the nation. --
Part of the Green College Lecture Series, 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. Taken together, the essays show that, while theories of globalization, postmodernism, and postcolonialism have all offered critiques of identity politics and the nation-state, the global present remains heavily informed by biblical-historical intuitions of nationhood. --
Mark Vessey is A Professor in the Department of English and Canada Research Chair in Literature / Christianity and Culture at the University of British Columbia. --
Sharon V. Betcher is an associate professor of Theology at Vancouver School of Theology. --
Robert A. Daum is an associate professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Thought and Director of Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at Vancouver School of Theology. --
Harry O. Maier is a professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at Vancouver School of Theology. --Book Jacket. - Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780802092410
0802092411 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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