Description: American Biblical Orientalism : The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth Century American Evangelical Piety, Hardcover by Grafton, David D., ISBN 1978704860, ISBN-13 9781978704862, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "An American Biblical Orientalism examines the life and work of Eli Smith, William McClure Thomson, and Edward Robinson and their descriptions of the "Bible Lands." While there has been a great deal written about American travelogues to the Holy Lands, this book focuses on how these three prominent American Protestants described the indigenous peoples, and how those images were consumed by American Christians who had little direct experience with the "Bible Lands." David D. Grafton argues that their publications (Biblical Researches, Later Biblical Researches, and The Land and th) profoundly impacted the way that American Protestants read and interpreted the Bible in the late nineteenth century. The descriptions and images of the people found theirway into American Bible Dictionaries, Theological Dictionaries, and academic and religious circles of a growing bible readership in North America. Ultimately, the people of late Ottoman society (. Jews, Christians and Muslims) were essentialized as the living characters of the Bible. These peoples were fit into categories as heroes or villains from biblical stories, and rarely seen as modern people in their own right. Thus, they were "orientalized," in the words of Edward Said"--
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Book Title: American Biblical Orientalism : The Construction of Jews, Christi
Number of Pages: 246 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: American Biblical Orientalism : The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Subject: Islamic Studies, United States / 19th Century, Religious, Christianity / General, History, Middle East / General, Sociology of Religion, Jewish
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 25.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: David D. Grafton
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
