David D. Grafton

An American Biblical Orientalism

The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the writings of thee Americans evangelicals and their views of the people of the "Bible Lands" in the nineteenth century. David D. Grafton argues that their descriptions of the people impacted the way in which American Bible readers "orientalized" these peoples, fitting them into biblical categories as heroes or villains.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Academic
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781978704862
• ISBN-10: 1978704860
• Artikelnr.: 57572132

Autorenporträt

David D. Grafton is Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. He is an ELCA pastor and theological educator who has taught in seminaries in Philadelphia and Cairo, Egypt. He has also served congregations in New Jersey, England, and Cairo. Among other publications, he is the author of Piety, Politics and Power: Lutherans Encountering Islam in the Middle East (Wipf & Stock, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Images of the "Oriental" among early American evangelicals
2. Eli Smith (1801-1857), "First True Orientalist" 3. A Scientific American
Biblical Orientalism 4. Robinson's American Oriental Bible Dictionaries 5.
William McClure Thomson and the "Fifth Gospel" 6. Study of the Biblical
Orient Conclusion: American Biblical Orientalism and the Modern Middle East