Chosen Peoples (eBook)

Gareth Atkins is Bye-Fellow and College Lecturer in History at Queens’ College, Cambridge Shinjini Das is a Lecturer in Modern Extra-European History at the University of East Anglia Brian Murray is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London

Introduction – Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das and Brian H. Murray
Part I: Peoples and lands
1 ‘A bad and dangerous book?’: the biblical identity politics of the Demerara Slave Rebellion – John Coffey
2 Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines – Hilary M. Carey
3 ‘The Ships of Tarshish’: the Bible and British Maritime Empire – Gareth Atkins
4 Jeremiah in Tara: British Israel and the Irish past – Brian H. Murray
Part II: The Bible in transit and translation
5 The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Arabic Bible translations: a study in language politics – Heather J. Sharkey
6 Empire and nation in the politics of the Russian Bible – Stephen K. Batalden
7 Contested identity: the Veda as an alternative to the Bible – Dorothy Figueira
8 ‘The Bible makes all nations one’: Biblical literacy and Khoesan national renewal in the Cape Colony – Jared McDonald
9 Distinction and dispersal: the nineteenth-century roots of segregationist folk theology in the American South – Stephen R. Haynes
10 Afterword/afterlife: identity, genealogy, legacy – David N. Livingstone
Select bibliography
Index