The Reformation of Hebrew Scripture: Chosen People, Chosen Nations, and Exceptionalism
The Reformation taught a way of reading the Hebrew Bible that made the Old Testament the valued possession of Protestants, encouraging them to see the histories and prophecies about biblical Israel as about the present and future not the past, and being fulfilled in Protestants. Calvin used Old Te...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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[2018]
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Reformation
Ano: 2018, Volume: 23, Número: 1, Páginas: 100-119 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | HB Antigo Testamento KAH Idade Moderna KBF Ilhas Britânicas KBQ América do Norte KDD Igreja evangélica |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Calvin
B America B England B British-Israelism B Israel B Milton |
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Resumo: | The Reformation taught a way of reading the Hebrew Bible that made the Old Testament the valued possession of Protestants, encouraging them to see the histories and prophecies about biblical Israel as about the present and future not the past, and being fulfilled in Protestants. Calvin used Old Testament verses to prove predestination and election, which were concepts also useful to emergent nationalisms. The idea of Chosen people and nations, supposedly the hallmark of Jewish Israel, did not disappear with Christianity but was revived and transformed with the Reformation. We see it not just in Milton and the seventeenth century but in the later development of British and Anglo-Israelism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The obsession with being Israelwith chosenness and exceptionalismpersists to the present, and is one of the most important, if troubling, legacies of a way of reading the Hebrew Bible that emerged with the Reformation. |
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| ISSN: | 1752-0738 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Reformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13574175.2018.1467596 |
