The exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present Vessey, Mark. text bibliography Electronic books. onc 2011 monographic eng 1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) : illustrations, map. 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. edited by Mark Vessey ... [and others]. Gift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) Includes bibliographical references and index. Nationalism Religious aspects Nationalism Biblical teaching Religion and state Nationalisme Nationalisme Enseignement biblique Nationalisme Aspect religieux Religion et État LITERARY CRITICISM / General Nationalism Biblical teaching Nationalism Religious aspects Religion and state POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference BL65.N3 C355 2011eb 320.54 (DLC) 2011381379 (OCoLC)651903028 9781442660434 1442660430 9781442659490 1442659491 22573/ctt57crq JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442660434 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=948419 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442660434 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=948419 JSTOR 131031 20200709060331.0 ocn861793309 eng