American Zion : the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War / Eran Shalev.
Publication details: New Haven, Conn. ; London, U.K. : Yale University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (x, 239 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780300188417
- 0300188412
- Bible. Old Testament -- Political aspects
- Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Bible. Old Testament
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
- United States -- Religion
- Bible and politics -- United States -- History
- United States -- Relations -- Israel
- Israel -- Relations -- United States
- Nationalism -- United States -- History
- Political culture -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Bible and politics
- Nationalism
- Political culture
- Politics and government
- International relations
- Religion
- Israel
- United States
- 1775-1865
- 322/.10973 23
- E302.1 .S525 2013
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E185.97.M65 A3 2011 EBOOK Coming of age in Mississippi / | E188 .W66 2017 EBOOK The world of colonial America : an Atlantic handbook / | E210 .E533 2015 EBOOK The encyclopedia of the Continental Congresses. | E302.1 .S525 2013 EBOOK American Zion : the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War / | E337.5 .R68 2018 EBOOK The Routledge history of nineteenth century America / | E468 .C73 2014 EBOOK A companion to the U.S. Civil War / | E741 .R684 2018 EBOOK The Routledge history of the twentieth-century United States / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-229) 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.
The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament that influenced political rhetoric. This book explores how this powerful predicliction for Old Testament narratives & rhetoric shaped a wide range of debates & cultural discussions.