TY - BOOK AU - Vessey,Mark TI - The calling of the nations: exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present T2 - Green College thematic lecture series SN - 9781442660434 AV - BL65.N3 C355 2011eb U1 - 320.54 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Toronto, New York PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Nationalism KW - Religious aspects KW - Biblical teaching KW - Religion and state KW - Nationalisme KW - Enseignement biblique KW - Aspect religieux KW - Religion et État KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference KW - Electronic books N1 - Gift of the Theological Studies Department editors for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR); Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442660434 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=948419 ER -