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An American Biblical Orientalism - The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety (Hardcover)
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An American Biblical Orientalism - The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety (Hardcover)
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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 the Book) 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 their way
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 (e.g.
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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