This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century.
This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century.
Gareth Atkins is Bye-Fellow and College Lecturer in History at Queens' College, Cambridge Shinjini Das is a Lecturer in Modern Extra-European History at the University of East Anglia Brian Murray is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at King's College London
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das and Brian H. Murray Part I: Peoples and lands 1 'A bad and dangerous book?': the biblical identity politics of the Demerara Slave Rebellion - John Coffey 2 Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines - Hilary M. Carey 3 'The Ships of Tarshish': the Bible and British Maritime Empire - Gareth Atkins 4 Jeremiah in Tara: British Israel and the Irish past - Brian H. Murray Part II: The Bible in transit and translation 5 The British and Foreign Bible Society's Arabic Bible translations: a study in language politics - Heather J. Sharkey 6 Empire and nation in the politics of the Russian Bible - Stephen K. Batalden 7 Contested identity: the Veda as an alternative to the Bible - Dorothy Figueira 8 'The Bible makes all nations one': Biblical literacy and Khoesan national renewal in the Cape Colony - Jared McDonald 9 Distinction and dispersal: the nineteenth-century roots of segregationist folk theology in the American South - Stephen R. Haynes 10 Afterword/afterlife: identity, genealogy, legacy - David N. Livingstone Select bibliography Index
Introduction - Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das and Brian H. Murray Part I: Peoples and lands 1 'A bad and dangerous book?': the biblical identity politics of the Demerara Slave Rebellion - John Coffey 2 Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines - Hilary M. Carey 3 'The Ships of Tarshish': the Bible and British Maritime Empire - Gareth Atkins 4 Jeremiah in Tara: British Israel and the Irish past - Brian H. Murray Part II: The Bible in transit and translation 5 The British and Foreign Bible Society's Arabic Bible translations: a study in language politics - Heather J. Sharkey 6 Empire and nation in the politics of the Russian Bible - Stephen K. Batalden 7 Contested identity: the Veda as an alternative to the Bible - Dorothy Figueira 8 'The Bible makes all nations one': Biblical literacy and Khoesan national renewal in the Cape Colony - Jared McDonald 9 Distinction and dispersal: the nineteenth-century roots of segregationist folk theology in the American South - Stephen R. Haynes 10 Afterword/afterlife: identity, genealogy, legacy - David N. Livingstone Select bibliography Index
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