American Zion : the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War / Eran Shalev.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
x, 239 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-229) and index.
Contents:
"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.
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