Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Religion and nationality in antiquity -- Kinship, territory, and the nation in the historiography of ancient Israel -- Sociological implications of the distinction between "locality" and extended "territory" -- The chosen people of ancient Israel and the Occident : why does nationality exist and survive? -- Borders, territory, and nationality in the ancient Near East and Armenia -- ʻAram kulloh and the worship of Hadad : a nation of Aram? -- The category of the primordial in the study of early Christianity and second-century Judaism -- Territoriality -- The nation of the United States and the vision of ancient Israel -- Nationality and religion.

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