The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present (Green College Thematic Lecture Series) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0802092411 ISBN 13: 9780802092410

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2011

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Current notions of nationhood, communal identity, territorial entitlement, and collective destiny are deeply rooted in historic interpretations of the Bible. Interweaving elements of history, theology, literary criticism, and cultural theory, the essays in this volume discuss the ways in which biblical understandings have shaped Western - and particularly European and North American - assumptions about the nature and meaning of the nation. Part of the Green College Lecture Series, 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. Taken together, the essays show that, while theories of globalization, postmodernism, and postcolonialism have all offered critiques of identity politics and the nation-state, the global present remains heavily informed by biblical-historical intuitions of nationhood.

Biografía del autor:

Mark Vessey is a professor in the Department of English and Canada Research Chair in Literature / Christianity and Culture at the University of British Columbia. Sharon Betcher is an associate professor of Theology at Vancouver School of Theology. Robert A. Daum is an associate professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Thought and Director of Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at Vancouver School of Theology. Harry O. Maier is a professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at Vancouver School of Theology.

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• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0802092411
• ISBN 13: 9780802092410
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Vessey Mark, Betcher Sharon, Daum Robert, Maier Harry O.