TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shalev,Eran
TI  - American Zion: the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War 
SN  - 9780300188417
AV  - E302.1 .S525 2013
U1  - 322/.10973 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Haven, Conn., London, U.K.
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Bible and politics
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Political culture
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Political Advocacy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - International relations
KW  - Religion
KW  - 1775-1783
KW  - 1783-1865
KW  - Relations
KW  - Israel
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://ezp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt32bmxz
ER  -