The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present

Introduction: The Bible in the West: A Peoples’ History? by Mark Vessey (University of British Columbia)

PART I: Biblical Possessions

1. Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine by Donald Harman Akenson (Queen’s University)
2. Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian Mapping of Palestine (with an Afterword on Islam) by Nabil I. Matar (University of Minnesota)
3. Beyond a Shared Inheritance: American Jews Reclaim the Hebrew Bible by Laura S. Levitt (Temple University, Philadelphia)
4. Recalling the Nation’s Terrain: Narrative, Territory and Canon (Commentary on Part One) by Robert A. Daum (University of British Columbia)

PART II: Confounding Narratives

1. Dominion from Sea to Sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great and the Exegesis of Empire by Harry O. Maier (Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia)
2. Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin Thought by Karla Pollmann (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
3. ‘The Ends of the Earth’: The Bible, Bibles and the Other in Early Medieval Europe by Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
4. Promised Lands, Premised Texts (Commentary on Part Two) by Mark Vessey

PART III: Colonial and Postcolonial Readings, Premodern Ironies

1. The Amerindian in Divine History: The Limits of Biblical Authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649 by Peter A. Goddard (University of Guelph)
2. Joshua in America: On Cowboys, Canaanites and Indians by Laura E. Donaldson (Cornell University)
3. Premodern Ironies: First Nations and Chosen Peoples by Jace Weaver (University of Georgia)
4. Biblical Narrative and the (De)stabilization of the Colonial Subject (Commentary on Part Three) by Harry O. Maier

Epilogue. ‘Paradise Highway’: Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading Practices by Sharon V. Betcher (Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia)