The Calling of the Nations

Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present
Herausgeber: Vessey, Mark; Maier, Harry; Daum, Robert; Betcher, Sharon

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780802092410
• ISBN-10: 0802092411
• Artikelnr.: 30678475

Autorenporträt

Edited by Mark Vessey, Sharon Betcher, Robert A. Daum, and Harry O. Maier

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Bible in the West: A Peoples’ History? by Mark Vessey
(University of British Columbia)
PART I: Biblical Possessions
1. Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine by
Donald Harman Akenson (Queen’s University)
2. Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian Mapping of Palestine (with
an Afterword on Islam) by Nabil I. Matar (University of Minnesota)
3. Beyond a Shared Inheritance: American Jews Reclaim the Hebrew Bible
by Laura S. Levitt (Temple University, Philadelphia)
4. Recalling the Nation’s Terrain: Narrative, Territory and Canon
(Commentary on Part One) by Robert A. Daum (University of British
Columbia)
PART II: Confounding Narratives
1. Dominion from Sea to Sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great
and the Exegesis of Empire by Harry O. Maier (Vancouver School of
Theology, British Columbia)
2. Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin
Thought by Karla Pollmann (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
3. ‘The Ends of the Earth’: The Bible, Bibles and the Other in Early
Medieval Europe by Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
4. Promised Lands, Premised Texts (Commentary on Part Two) by Mark
Vessey
PART III: Colonial and Postcolonial Readings, Premodern Ironies
1. The Amerindian in Divine History: The Limits of Biblical Authority in
the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649 by Peter A. Goddard
(University of Guelph)
2. Joshua in America: On Cowboys, Canaanites and Indians by Laura E.
Donaldson (Cornell University)
3. Premodern Ironies: First Nations and Chosen Peoples by Jace Weaver
(University of Georgia)
4. Biblical Narrative and the (De)stabilization of the Colonial Subject
(Commentary on Part Three) by Harry O. Maier
Epilogue. ‘Paradise Highway’: Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading
Practices by Sharon V. Betcher (Vancouver School of Theology, British
Columbia)