God's Sacred Tongue: Hebrew & the American ImaginationUNC Press Books, 2004 - 349 pages 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, |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Zion on American Shores Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 7 |
Lost Tribes and Found Peoples | 15 |
A Tale of Two Teachers Hebrew at Harvard | 31 |
Ambivalence and Erudition in New Haven Ezra Stiles Yale College and the Jewish Tradition | 52 |
All knowledge Is from the Hebrew Jonathan Edwards as Biblical Exegete and Christian Hebraist | 74 |
Evangelizing the Jews Christian Missions and Jewish Responses | 89 |
The American Jewish Community and Its Encounter with Christian Hebraism | 112 |
American Hebraist and ProtoZionist Professor George Bush | 199 |
The Careers of Selah Merrill NineteenthCentury Christian Hebraist Palestine Explorer and US Consul in Jerusalem | 208 |
Christian Zionism the Jewish State and Americas Biblical Background Twentieth Century | 229 |
The University as Messiah William Raincy Harper as Hebraist Educational Reformer and Visionary | 235 |
Reinhold Niebuhr the Jewish Tradition and Political Zionism | 253 |
A Long Affair Edmund Wilson on Judaism the Hebrew Language and the American Jewish Community | 275 |
American Biblicism and Modern Politics | 291 |
Notes | 307 |
Scholars Prophets Mystics Nineteenth Century | 129 |
Christian Hebraism and Palestine Exploration Moses Stuart Edward Robinson and Their Jewish Informants | 137 |
An Israelite Truly in Whom There Was No Guile Isaac Nordheimer | 163 |
Jews Mormons and Christian Hebraism in EarlyNineteenthCentury America JoshuaJames Seixas | 176 |
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