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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 Polit

Author

Shalom L. Goldman

Publisher

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807855096

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography