Recrafting Israel: Toward an Ethnotechnical Conception of the Nation

This paper argues that the strong desire to ascribe the status of nation to the Israel of the Hebrew Bible – a tendency that makes sense in terms of how the biblical text is presented and in terms of contemporary discourse that seeks to advance theories of nations and nationalism – inevitably runs u...

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Main Author: Frank, Nathan Dwight (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2015, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 316-339
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Israel
 nation
 nationalism
 cyborg
 myth
 artifice

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