3. “A Truly American Spirit of Writing” Pseudobiblicism, the Early Republic, and the Cultural Origins of the Book of Mormon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “The Jewish Cincinnatus” Biblical Republicanism in the Age of the American Revolution 15
6. 2. “The United Tribes, or States of Israel” The Hebrew Republic as a Political Model Before the Civil War 50
7. 3. “A Truly American Spirit of Writing” Pseudobiblicism, the Early Republic, and the Cultural Origins of the Book of Mormon 84
8. 4. Tribes Lost and Found: Israelites in Nineteenth-Century America 118
9. 5. Evangelicalism, Slavery, and the Decline of an Old Testament Nation 151
10. Conclusion. Beyond Old Testamentism: The New Israel after the Civil War 185
11. Notes 193
12. Index 231