Biblical ideas of nationality

Grosby, Steven Elliott, 1951-

Biblical ideas of nationality ancient and modern / [electronic resource] : Steven Grosby. - Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2002. - x, 269 p. : map.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Religion and nationality in antiquity -- Kinship, territory, and the nation in the historiography of ancient Israel -- Sociological implications of the distinction between "locality" and extended "territory" -- The chosen people of ancient Israel and the Occident : why does nationality exist and survive? -- Borders, territory, and nationality in the ancient Near East and Armenia -- ʻAram kulloh and the worship of Hadad : a nation of Aram? -- The category of the primordial in the study of early Christianity and second-century Judaism -- Territoriality -- The nation of the United States and the vision of ancient Israel -- Nationality and religion.


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Nationalism--Biblical teaching.
Nationalism--Religious aspects.
Nationalism--Middle East.
Religion and state.
Jewish nationalism.


Electronic books.

BS1199.N3 / G76 2002eb

220.8/32054