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

Title
American Zion : the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War / Eran Shalev.
ISBN
9780300186925 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780300205909 (pbk.)
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
239 pages cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 22, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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