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God's Sacred Tongue - Hebrew and the American Imagination (Paperback, New edition)
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God's Sacred Tongue - Hebrew and the American Imagination (Paperback, New edition)
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In a comprehensive examination of how Christian scholars in the
United States received, interpreted, and understood Hebrew texts
and the Jewish experience, Shalom Goldman explores Hebraism's
relationship to American society. By linking history, theology, and
literature from the colonial period through the twentieth century,
Goldman illuminates the religious and cultural roots of American
interest in the Middle East. God's Sacred Tongue is structured
around a sequence of biographical and intellectual portraits of
individuals including Jonathan Edwards, Isaac Nordheimer, Professor
George Bush (an ancestor of President George W. Bush), and
twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson. Since the colonial
period, America has been perceived as a western Promised Land with
emotional, spiritual, and physical links to the Promised Land of
biblical history. Goldman gives evidence from scholarship,
diplomacy, journalism, the history of higher education, and the
arts to show that this perception is linked to the role Hebrew and
the Bible have played in American cultural history. The book's
final section takes up the story of American Christian Zionism,
among whose Protestant adherents political Zionism found much of
its strongest support. Religious and cultural figures such as
William Rainey Harper and Reinhold Niebuhr are among those who
exemplify the centuries-old ties between America, the Land of
Promise, and Israel, the Promised Land.
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