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505 0 a| Presuppositions -- Abraham and sons -- His name is Jealous -- Divinely chosen kings and kingdoms -- Which survivors were chosen? -- Christians as a new chosen people -- Beyond the Bible: sacred texts and sacred places -- God shed his light on thee? -- Fundamentalist Zionisms -- Immigrants and refugees, ideals and realities -- Beyond tribalism.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159) and index.;

520 a| The Bible describes many individuals and groups as specially chosen by God. But does God choose at all? Michael Coogan explains the temporally layered and allusive storytelling of biblical texts and describes the world of the ancient Near East from which it emerged, laying bare the power struggles, the acts of vengeance, and persecutions made sacred by claims of chosenness. Jumping forward to more modern contexts, Coogan reminds us how the self-designation of the Puritan colonizers of New England as God?s new Israel eventually morphed, in the United States, into the self-justifying doctrines of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism. In contemporary Israel, both fundamentalist Zionists and their evangelical American partners cite the Jews? status as God?s chosen people as justification for taking land?for very different ends. Appropriated uncritically, the Bible has thus been used to reinforce exclusivity and superiority, with new myths based on old myths. Finally, in place of the pernicious idea of chosenness, Coogan suggests we might instead focus on another key biblical concept: taking care of the immigrant and the refugee, reminding the reader of the unusual focus on the vulnerable in both the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.-amazon.com.;

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God's favorites : Judaism, Christianity, and the myth of divine chosenness / Michael Coogan.

Author/creator	Coogan, Michael David author.
Format	Book
Publication	Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
Copyright Date	©2019
Description	170 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Subjects	Jews--Election, Doctrine of. Election (Theology) Christians--Doctrines.

Contents	Presuppositions -- Abraham and sons -- His name is Jealous -- Divinely chosen kings and kingdoms -- Which survivors were chosen? -- Christians as a new chosen people -- Beyond the Bible: sacred texts and sacred places -- God shed his light on thee? -- Fundamentalist Zionisms -- Immigrants and refugees, ideals and realities -- Beyond tribalism.
Abstract	The Bible describes many individuals and groups as specially chosen by God. But does God choose at all? Michael Coogan explains the temporally layered and allusive storytelling of biblical texts and describes the world of the ancient Near East from which it emerged, laying bare the power struggles, the acts of vengeance, and persecutions made sacred by claims of chosenness. Jumping forward to more modern contexts, Coogan reminds us how the self-designation of the Puritan colonizers of New England as God?s new Israel eventually morphed, in the United States, into the self-justifying doctrines of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism. In contemporary Israel, both fundamentalist Zionists and their evangelical American partners cite the Jews? status as God?s chosen people as justification for taking land?for very different ends. Appropriated uncritically, the Bible has thus been used to reinforce exclusivity and superiority, with new myths based on old myths. Finally, in place of the pernicious idea of chosenness, Coogan suggests we might instead focus on another key biblical concept: taking care of the immigrant and the refugee, reminding the reader of the unusual focus on the vulnerable in both the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.-amazon.com.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Coogan, Michael David. God's favorites. Boston : Beacon Press, [2019] 9780807001950
Genre/form	Nonfiction.
LCCN	2017034551
ISBN	9780807001943 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN	0807001945 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN	9780807028322 (paperback ; alk. paper)
ISBN	0807028320 (paperback ; alk. paper)

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