An American Biblical Orientalism: The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety

by David Grafton

This book explores the writings of thee Americans evangelicals and their views of the people of the "Bible Lands" in the nineteenth century. David D. Grafton argues that their descriptions of the people impacted the way in which American Bible readers "orientalized" these peoples, fitting them into biblical categories as heroes or villains.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978704860
• ISBN13: 9781978704862
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"