The calling of the nations :  exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present / 
edited by Mark Vessey [and others. 
 - Toronto ;  New York :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) :  illustrations, map 
 - 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 bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction. The Bible in the West: a peoples' history? /  part 1. Biblical possessions. Perhaps God is Irish: Sacred texts as virtual reality machine /  Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian mapping of Palestine (with an afterword on Islam) /  Beyond a shared inheritance: American Jews reclaim the Hebrew Bible /  Recalling the nation's terrain: narrative, territory, and canon (commentary on part one) /  part 2. 2. Confounding narratives. Dominion from sea to sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great, and the exegesis of empire /  Unending sway: the ideology of empire in early Christian Latin thought /  'The ends of the Earth': the Bible, Bibles, and the other in early Medieval Europe /  Promised lands, premised texts (commentary on part two) /  part 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 /  Joshua in America: on cowboys, Canaanites, and Indians /  Premodern ironies: first nations and chosen peoples /  Biblical narrative and the (de)stabilization of the colonial subject (commentary on part three) /  Epilogue: 'Paradise Highway': of global cities and postcolonial reading practices /  Mark Vessey --  Donald Harman Akenson --  Nabil I. Matar --  Laura S. Levitt --  Robert A. Daum --  Harry O. Maier --  Karla Pollmann --  Ian Wood --  Mark Vessey --  Peter A. Goddard --  Laura E. Donaldson --  Jace Weaver --  Harry O. Maier --  Sharon V. Betcher. 
<br/><br/> This wide-ranging collection moves from the earliest Pauline and Rabbinic exegesis through Christian imperial and missionary narratives of the late Roman, medieval, and early modern periods to the entangled identity politics of 'mainstream' nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442660434 9781442659490 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011381379 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>20109050231 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nationalism--Religious aspects.<br/>Nationalism--Biblical teaching.<br/>Religion and state.<br/>Nationalism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL65  / .C355 2011