Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. 1. Introduction The Bible in the West: A Peoples’ History? 1
6. Part One. Biblical Possessions
7. 2. Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine 43
8. 3. Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian Mapping of Palestine (with an Afterword on Islam) 59
9. 4. Beyond a Shared Inheritance: American Jews Reclaim the Hebrew Bible 83
10. 5. Recalling the Nation’s Terrain: Narrative, Territory, and Canon (Commentary on Part One) 102
11. Part Two. Confounding Narratives
12. 6. Dominion from Sea to Sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great, and the Exegesis of Empire 149
13. 7. Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin Thought 176
14. 8. ‘The Ends of the Earth’: The Bible, Bibles, and the Other in Early Medieval Europe 200
15. 9. Promised Lands, Premised Texts (Commentary on Part Two) 217
16. Part Three. Colonial and Postcolonial Readings, Premodern Ironies
17. 10. The Amerindian in Divine History: The Limits of Biblical Authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632–1649 253
18. 11. Joshua in America: On Cowboys, Canaanites, and Indians 273
19. 12. Premodern Ironies: First Nations and Chosen Peoples 291
20. 13. Biblical Narrative and the (De)stabilization of the Colonial Subject (Commentary on Part Three) 305
21. 14. Epilogue ‘Paradise Highway’: Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading Practices 325
22. Contributors 353
23. Index 357