Biblical Ideas of Nationality, Ancient and Modern / / Steven Grosby.
In this collection of essays, drawn from more than a decade of study and publication, Steven Grosby investigates ancient texts (biblical and other) from within a methodology that is founded on philosophical anthropology. His goal is to examine the ways in which the ancients defined themselves, parti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Religion and Nationality in Antiquity
- 2. Kinship, Territory, and the Nation in the Historiography of Ancient Israel
- 3. Sociological Implications of the Distinction between "Locality" and Extended "Territory"
- 4. The Chosen People of Ancient Israel and the Occident: Why Does Nationality Exist and Survive?
- 5. Borders, Territory, and Nationality in the Ancient Near East and Armenia
- 6. 'Aram Kulloh and the Worship of Hadad: A Nation of Aram?
- 7. The Category of the Primordial in the Study of Early Christianity and Second-Century Judaism
- 8. Territoriality
- 9. The Nation of the United States and the Vision of Ancient Israel
- 10. Nationality and Religion
- Indexes