The calling of the nations :  exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present / 
edited by Mark Vessey ... [and others]. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) :  illustrations, map. 
 - Green College thematic lecture series .
 - Green College thematic lecture series. .
<br/><br/> Gift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction. The Bible in the West: a peoples' history? / Mark Vessey -- pt. 1. Biblical possessions. Perhaps God is Irish: Sacred texts as virtual reality machine / Donald Harman Akenson -- Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian mapping of Palestine (with an afterword on Islam) / 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 (commentary on part one) / Robert A. Daum -- pt. 2. 2. Confounding narratives. 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 (commentary on part two) / Mark Vessey -- pt. 3. Colonial and postcolonial readings, premodern ironies. 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 (commentary on part three) / Harry O. Maier -- Epilogue: 'Paradise Highway': of global cities and postcolonial reading practices / Sharon V. Betcher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442660434 1442660430 9781442659490 1442659491 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt57crq  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nationalism--Religious aspects.<br/>Nationalism--Biblical teaching.<br/>Religion and state.<br/>Nationalisme.<br/>Nationalisme--Enseignement biblique.<br/>Nationalisme--Aspect religieux.<br/>Religion et État.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / General<br/>Nationalism--Biblical teaching.<br/>Nationalism--Religious aspects.<br/>Religion and state.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL65.N3  / C355 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.54