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