American Zion
Subtitle: the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War
By: Eran Shalev
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780300186925
Subjects: Politics and government; Bible and politics; Political culture; Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Relations; Religion; Political aspects; Nationalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The Jewish Cincinnatus" : Biblical Republicanism in the Age of the American Revolution; title: "The United Tribes, or States of Israel" : The Hebrew Republic as a Political Model before the Civil War; title: "A Truly American Spirit of Writing" : Pseudobiblicism, the Early Republic, and the Cultural Origins of the Book of Mormon; title: Tribes Lost and Found : Israelites in Nineteenth-Century America; title: Evangelicalism, Slavery, and the Decline of an Old Testament Nation; title: Conclusion: Beyond Old Testamentism : The New Israel after the Civil War.