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The calling of the nations : exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present / edited by Mark Vessey [and others].

Contributor(s): Vessey, Mark [edt]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Green College thematic lecture series: Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xiv, 371 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802092410; 0802092411Subject(s): Nationalism | Nationalism -- Biblical teaching | Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Religion and stateBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Bible in the west: a peoples' history / Mark Vessey -- Perhaps God is Irish: sacred texts as virtual reality machine / Donald Harman Akenson -- Protestant restorationism and the Ortelian mapping of Palestine / 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 / Robert A. Daum -- 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 / Mark Vessey -- 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 / Henry O. Maier -- "Paradise highway": of global cities and postcolonial reading practices / Sharon V. Betcher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Bible in the west: a peoples' history / Mark Vessey -- Perhaps God is Irish: sacred texts as virtual reality machine / Donald Harman Akenson -- Protestant restorationism and the Ortelian mapping of Palestine / 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 / Robert A. Daum -- 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 / Mark Vessey -- 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 / Henry O. Maier -- "Paradise highway": of global cities and postcolonial reading practices / Sharon V. Betcher.

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