Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture

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abduction, –, –,  n.  Abraham, , , , , , –,  n.  Abram. See Abraham Adams, Henry, ,  n.  Adams, John, –,  nn. ,  agriculture, –, , –, , , –,  n.  al Qaeda, , , , , ,  n.  alêtheia, ,  alleluia, , ,  altruism, –, –, , , , , ,  n. . See also egoism ancient astronaut theory, – Anglo-Israelism, – Antichrist a Jew, ,  and liberalism, – past identifications, –, , , –,  n.  antitypes. See types apocalypse catastrophic violence, , , , –, – end of history, –, , , ,  holidays and apocalyptic model, – last judgment, , , , –, , ,  n. ,  n.  punishment, –, , –, , –,  n.  sects and cults, , , –, , ,  Applewhite, Marshall Herff. See Heaven’s Gate Ark of the Covenant, , ,  Armageddon, , – and American wars, , –, , , ,  climax of history, , ,  and modern Israel,  and the Rapture Augustine, St., , –, ,  Austin, David, ,  Babel, ,  Babylon city-state, , –, , , , , – symbol, , , , , , , , –,  Whore of, , –, ,  n.  Bakhtin, Mikhail,  Baldwin, Samuel Davies,  Batman, Stephen,  Battle Hymn of the Republic, The, , – Bellah, Robert, , , , , , ,  n. ,  n.  Bellamy, Joseph, – Bible Geneva Bible, –,  n.  King James Version (KJV),  New Testament, , , ,  Old Testament, , , –, , , ,  blessings, , , , –, –, , –, , –, , . See also curses Boyer, Paul, – Boykin, Lt. Gen. William “Jerry,” x Bramley, William, – Branch Davidians,  Brightman, Thomas,  Bryant, William Cullen, – Bunyan, John, , , , ,  Burt, John,  Bush, George H. W., –, , –,  Bush, George W., xv, , –, –, –, , , , ,  n. ,  n. ,  n.  Butler, Richard, – Cain, , , –,  n.  Calvin, John, , , ,  n.  INDEX 258  Campbell, Joseph,  Canaan America as, , , , , , ,  biblical land, , , , , ,  son of Ham, , , –,  n.  carnival, –, . See also social inversion Carter, Jimmy, – Cartwright, Samuel,  Catholic Church, Roman, , , – Chariots of the Gods, – Cheney, Dick, , , ,  Chesterton, G. K.,  Chosen People Americans as, x, , ,  in need of correction, –, ,  peculiar people, concept of a, x, –, ,  in postmillennialism,  in premillennialism, ,  racial definition, – in Revelation,  Christ. See Jesus of Nazareth; Messiah Christian Exodus Movement,  Christian Identity Movement, , , – Christian Reconstructionism. See Dominionism Christmas, , , –, – Church Age, ,  Church, Francis P.,  n.  Church, Jerry R.,  city of Man and of God, , , –,  place of evil, – Plato’s Kallipolis, – upon a hill, , . See also kingdoms civil religion, xvi, , , –, –, –, , , ,  n.  civil war American, , , –, , , ,  n. ,  n.  English, –,  n.  civilization, , , , , , , , , , , . See also governmental level civilized world, , , , ,  n.  cognitive dissonance Eden vs. Exodus,  n.  ethos vs. praxis, , ,  and the figure of Jesus,  modernism vs. premodernism, , ,  in oral narrative and myth, –, , , , ,  n.  Cohn, Norman, ,  n.  Coke, Edward,  Colbert, Stephen, –. See also truthiness communal level. See social levels Conquest of Canäan, The, –. See also Dwight, Timothy Conrad, Joseph, – Constantine the Great, , – cosmic week, , ,  Cotton, John, –,  covenant, ,  with America, , , , , ,  blessings and curses, , , ,  of faith vs. works, – Palestinian,  and political legitimacy, , , ,  crusades. See holy war curses, , , , –, –, , , –, . See also blessings; imprecatory prayer Dante,  Darby, John Nelson, –, , . See also dispensationalism David, , , , , , , –, ,  Davidson, James West,  Day of Doom, The (Wigglesworth), –, , , ,  n.  Day of the Lord, , , , . See also apocalypse Dead Sea Scrolls, –,  n.  detective novel, –,  n. ,  DiIulio, John, – dispensationalism, –, , , , –,  dissonance, cognitive. See cognitive dissonance Dominionism, –,  doomsday. See apocalypse; last judgment doublethink,  Dunbar, Robin,  Durkheim, Émile,  Dwight, Timothy, , –, , , ,  Edwards, Jonathan, , , –, , –,  n.  egoism, –, , . See also altruism Egypt, , , , ,  electricity, , –, –,  n. ,  n. . See also fire from heaven electrocution, –,  n.  Elijah, ,  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, , – eschata, ,  Essenes, ,  n.  ethos, –, , –, , , –, –,  n. . See also praxis evangelicalism, , , , , –, ,  evolution, –, , , , , , , – exceptionalism, American,  extraterrestrials, , –, ,  n. . See also space, outer False Prophet, , , ,  Falwell, Rev. Jerry, , , –,  n.  Festinger, Leon, , –. See also cognitive dissonance fire from heaven, , , , –. See also electricity; hell; lightning Fourth of July. See Independence Day Franklin, H. Bruce,  Freud, Sigmund, –,  n.  full narrative cycle. See narrative fundamentalism, , , ,  George III (of England), , ,  Gerson, Michael,  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, ,  n.  Golden Age, –, , , ,  Gomorrah. See Sodom governmental level. See social levels Graham, Rev. Billy, , , ,  Graham, Rev. Franklin, ,  n.  Great Beast, , . See also Antichrist Greece. See hellenism Grenada,  Halley’s Comet, ,  Halloween, , – Ham, –, –, , , , – Hammond, Phillip,  Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers,  Haynes, Stephen, ,  n.  Heaven’s Gate, –,  n.  hell, –, , –, –, , , , . See also fire from heaven; Satan hellenism, , , , ,  n. ,  n.  Hesiod, ,  Heston, Charlton,  history, the judgment of, – holy war, , , , ,  n.  crusades, –, , , ,  jihad, ,  home, in relation to land as community, x–xi, –, , , ,  identified with land, –, , , , , –,  opposed to land, , , –, ,  Homer (Homeric epic), , , , ,  n.  hunter-gatherer culture, –, ,  n.  Hussein, Saddam, , , , ,  nn. , ,  n.  Hutchinson, Anne, – hybridization, , –, ,  n.  immigration, –, , , , –, ,  Impe, Jack Van,  imprecatory prayer, . See also curses Independence, American War of, , , , –,  Independence Day, , –, ,  n. ,  nn. , ,  Indians, American, , , –, , , –, , ,  n.  Iraq Operation Iraqi Freedom, –, , –,  n.  Operation Desert Storm, –, – and “War on Terror,” , ,  n.  Irvine, R. T., – Islam, , , , , , , , –, ,  Israel America as New Israel, , , –, –, –, –, , , , –,  n.  ancient nation, –, –, –, –, , ,  Christianity as New Israel, , , , –, ,  n.  modern nation-state, , , , –, –,  See also Anglo-Israelism; Jews Jameson, Fredric,  Japheth, , –, , , ,  Jefferson, Thomas, , ,  Jehovah’s Witnesses, – Jenkins, Jerry B.,  Jesus of Nazareth in Gospels, –, , , , , , ,  n.  as redeemer, , –,  in Revelation, –, , , , , ,  his Second Coming, –, , –, ,  259  See also apocalypse; last judgment; Messiah Jewett, Robert, – Jews and apocalypse, –, , , , –,  n.  in Christian Identity myths, – and Hebrew Bible, – Judah, tribe of, –,  and persecution, , , –, –, ,  as rejected by God, , , ,  n.  and time, –, , ,  n.  jihad. See also holy war John the Baptist, ,  Jones, Alexander,  Judah, , –, ,  Kennedy, John F., ,  Kingdom...