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American Zion : the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Conn. ; London, U.K. :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.