Steven Grosby
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Steven Grosby is an established and widely-known[citation needed] professor of religion at Clemson University. He received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago.
His areas of research include the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, the relation between religion and nationality, and Social and Political Philosophy.
His articles have appeared in journals such as Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, History of Religions, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, and Nations and Nationalism.
“Grosby asserts that the human tendency to form attachments to the image of the native land. . . suggests something fundamental about human conduct.” [1]
Grosby is credited[citation needed] with introducing into contemporary nationalism studies the idea that nations and nationalism can be found as far back as Israel and Edom in the seventh century BCE. In his pathbreaking study, Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern, he presents evidence that the ideas of modern nationhood were already present in the Ancient Near East in places like Armenia, Edom, Egypt, and especially Biblical Israel, which later became the major model for European nation formation.
According to Anthony D. Smith Grosby argues that “from roughly the late seventh century BCE… Israel appears as a fully fledged nation.” [2]
[edit] Books
- Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern (2002)
- Hans Freyer, Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture. Series in Continental Thought No. 25 (translation) (1998)
- itor of two volumes of selected writings of Edward Shils, The Virtue of Civility (1997) and The Calling of Education (1997)
- Nationality and Nationalism--a four volume Reader, co-editor (2004)
- Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press
[edit] Awards and Honors
Templeton Foundation Award [3] [4]
[edit] References
- ^ Nation News
- ^ The Nation in History: Historiographical Debates About Ethnicity and Nationalism, by Anthony D. Smith ( 2000), p. 45
- ^ Clemson University
- ^ Clemson University