American Zion the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War /

Shalev, Eran, 1970-

American Zion the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War / Eran Shalev. - New Haven, Conn. ; London, U.K. : Yale University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (x, 239 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

"The Jewish Cincinnatus" : Biblical Republicanism in the Age of the American Revolution -- "The United Tribes, or States of Israel" : The Hebrew Republic as a Political Model before the Civil War -- "A Truly American Spirit of Writing" : Pseudobiblicism, the Early Republic, and the Cultural Origins of the Book of Mormon -- Tribes Lost and Found : Israelites in Nineteenth-Century America -- Evangelicalism, Slavery, and the Decline of an Old Testament Nation -- Conclusion: Beyond Old Testamentism : The New Israel after the Civil War.



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Bible.--Old Testament--Political aspects.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Bible and politics--History.--United States
Nationalism--History.--United States
Political culture--History.--United States


Electronic Books.

E302 / .A447 2013