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American Zion the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War

Title: American Zion [electronic resource] : the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War / Eran Shalev.
Author: Shalev, Eran, 1970-
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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1 online resource (x, 239 pages)

Uniform Title

American Zion (Online)

Alternative Title

American Zion (Online)

Subject

Bible. > Political aspects
Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible and politics > United States > History
Nationalism > United States > History
Political culture > United States > History
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865
United States > Religion
United States > Relations > Israel
Israel > Relations > United States

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-229) and index.

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Contents

"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.

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