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The chosen people of ancient Israel and the Occident: why does nationality exist and survive?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 1999
Abstract
The primary focus of this article differs from the author's earlier argument about why it may be legitimate to apply the category of nationality to ancient Israel. The concern here is three-fold: an examination of the conceptions of Israel as the chosen people (both conditional and unconditional) in the Old Testament; the possible bearing of those conceptions on the historical imagination of the Occident; and what those conceptions might tell us about the constitution of nationality in general.
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- © 1999 Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
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