The Calling of the Nations

by Vessey, Mark; Betcher, Sharon V.; Daum, Robert A.; Maier, Harry O.

• ISBN13: 9780802092410
• ISBN10: 0802092411
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: The Bible in the West: A Peoples' History?	p. 3
Biblical Possessions
Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine	p. 43
Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian Mapping of Palestine (with an Afterword on Islam)	p. 59
Beyond a Shared Inheritance: American Jews Reclaim the Hebrew Bible	p. 83
Recalling the Nation's Terrain: Narrative, Territory, and Canon (Commentary on Part One)	p. 102
Confounding Narratives
Dominion from Sea to Sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great, and the Exegesis of Empire	p. 149
Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin Thought	p. 176
'The Ends of the Earth': The Bible, Bibles, and the Other in Early Medieval Europe	p. 200
Promised Lands, Premised Texts (Commentary on Part Two)	p. 217
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	p. 253
Joshua in America: On Cowboys, Canaanites, and Indians	p. 273
Premodern Ironies: First Nations and Chosen Peoples	p. 291
Biblical Narrative and the (De)stabilization of the Colonial Subject (Commentary of Part Three)	p. 305
Epilogue: 'Paradise Highway': Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading Practices	p. 325
Notes on Contributors	p. 353
Index	p. 357
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