King Solomon's Dilemma - And the confederacy's

Southern Cultures

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 55-75

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EID: 67650067283     PISSN: 10688218     EISSN: 15341488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/scu.2004.0048     Document Type: Review

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1. Josephus, The Jewish War, tr. G. A. Williamson, ed. E. Mary Small-wood (Penguin, 1970), 161. Most southern intellectuals held Josephus in high esteem and relied heavily on his works
2. Tertullian, "The Prescription against Heretics," in Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., rev. by A. Cleveland Coxe, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3, Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian (1885; Hendrickson, 1995), 246
3. Polybius, The Histories, tr. W. R. Paton, 6 vols. (Loeb Classical Library, 11. d.)
4. For Polybius as cyclical theorist see F. W Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, 3 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1975), vol. 1, 642-64, 727-72, 743-45
5. and F W. Walbank, Polybius (University of California Press, 1972), chs. 5-6, esp. pp. 133-34, 145-46
6. For an elaboration see Eugene D. Genovese, A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (University of Georgia Press, 1998)
7. Hans W. Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics (Yale University Press, 1974)
8. Forrest McDonald, The American Presidency: An Intellectual Portrait (University Press of Kansas, 1994), 68-72
9. P. A. M., "The Bible," Southern Literary Messenger 11 (1845 ): 620
10. Frances Leigh Williams, Matthew Fontaine Maury: Scientist of the Sea (Rutgers University Press, 1963), 340
11. For a strong defense of the centrality of biblical history to the foundations of Christianity see Mark Noll, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Baker Books, 1997), 14-16
12. Thomas Roderick Dew, Digest of the Fan's, Customs, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations (1852; New York, 1884), 7
13. Most of the prominent secular as well as religious southern writers upheld the Bible as history; see, for example, J. L. Reynolds, The Man of Letters: An Address Delivered before the Literary Societies of Wake Forest College (Richmond, 1849), 21
14. Thomas O. Summers, ed., Sermons by the Late Rev. David Seth Doggett (Nashville, 1882), 232-33
15. [Edwin C. Holland], A Refutation of the Calumnies Circulated against the Southern and Western States, Respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery among Them (Charleston, 1822), 40-41
16. Iveson L. Brookes, A Defence of the South against the Reproaches of the North (Hamburg, South Carolina, 1850), 9, 45
17. William C. Buck, "The Slavery Question," Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Banner, 1849, 7
18. B. W. Lacy, "Government a Divine Institution," Virginia University Magazine 4 (1860): 327
19. for the press see Donald E. Reynolds, Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis (Vanderbilt University Press, 1966), 177
20. Jackson, Alabama, Republican, 17 January 1861
21. Gate-City Guardian, 12 February 1861
22. For the Theocracy and "slavery in the abstract" see Thornton Stringfellow, Slavery: Its Origin, Nature, and History, Considered in the Light of Bible Teachings, Moral Justice, and Political Wisdom (New York, J. F Trow, 1861), 30, 31
23. [George Frederick Holmes], "Slavery and Freedom," Southern Quarterly Review 1 (1856): 70
24. for Fitzhugh see Eugene D. Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation, new ed. (Wesleyan University Press, 1988), 188 - 89
25. Henry Hughes, Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical (185 4; Negro Universities Press, 1968), 82-83
26. [J. D. B. De Bow], "Characteristics of a Statesman," Southern Quarterly Review 6 (1844): 117
27. A Lady of Georgia, "Southern Slavery and Its Assailants," De Bow's Review 16 (1854): 59
28. Sermons of Bishop Pierce and Rev. B. M, Palmer, Delivered before the General Assembly at Milledgeville, Ga., on Fast Day, March 27, 1863 (Milledgeville, Georgia, 1863), 10
29. "The Moral Law," in Thomas Cary Johnson, Miscellanies of Rev. Thomas E. Peck, 3 vols. (Richmond, Virginia, 1895-1897), vol. 2, 137-38
30. F. C. Barber, "Mormonism in the United States," De Bow's Review 16 (1854): 382
31. [George Frederick Holmes], "Revival of the Black Arts," Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review 6 (1854): 195
32. [Holmes], "Slavery and Freedom," Southern Quarterly Review 1 (1856): 71
33. For the debate over the existence of Israelite slavery see Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview (in press), ch. 17
34. On labor conditions see, for example, E. E. Urbach, "The Laws Regarding Slavery, as a Source for Social History of the Period of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and Talmud," in J. G. Weiss, ed., Papers of the Institute of Jewish Studies, London (Jerusalem, Israel, 1964), vol. 1, 12, 84
35. and Isaac Mendelsohn, "On Corvée Labor in Ancient Canaan and Israel," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 167 (1962): 31-35
36. G. B., "The Book of Judith," Quarterly Review of the Methodist Church, South 10 (1856): 589-608
37. James P. Holcombe, "Is Slavery Consistent with Natural Law," Southern Literary Messenger 27 (1858): 421
38. and Thomas S. Dunaway, A Sermon Delivered. . . Before the Coan Baptist Church (Richmond, 1864), 3-4
39. [James Johnston Pettigrew], Notes on Spain and the Spaniards in the Summer of 1859, with a Glance at Sardinia (Charleston, Presses of Evans and Cogswell, 1861), 131
40. [William Gilmore Simms], "Critical Notices," Southern Quarterly Review, 3 (1851): 294, 295
41. For Solomon's bureaucracy and labor policies see Gösta Ahlström, The History of Palestine (Fortress Press, 1993), 435-542, 508-509
42. Samuel Davies, "The Mediatorial Kingdom and the Glories of Jesus Christ" (1756), in Ellis Sandoz, ed., Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805 (LibertyPress, 1991), 187
43. P. H. Mell, Predestination and the Saints' Perseverance Stated and Defended, from the Objections of Arminians in a Review of Two Sermons by Rev. Reneau (Sprinkle, 1995), 61-66
44. Stuart Robinson, Discourses of Redemption (New York, D. Appleton, 1866), 159
45. J. S. Lamar, A. Discourse Delivered in the Christian Church on the Confederate Fast-Day (Augusta, Georgia, The Constitutionalist, 1861 ), 4
46. Eric Voegelin, Order and History, 5 vols. (Louisiana State University, 1956-1987), vol. 1, 243, 258-59, 142, 176-77, 180, 183, 226, 300, 357, 444, and 460
47. also, Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets, 2 vols. in t (Prince Press, 2000), vol. 2, 257-58, vol. 1, 161
48. David J. Levy, "Israel and Judah: Politics and Religion in the Hebrew Kingdoms," Continuity 10 (1985): 47-62
49. R. N Sledd, A Sermon Delivered in the Market Street, M. E. Church, Petersburg, Va., Before the Confederate Cadets. . . Sept. 22, 1861 (Petersburg, Virginia, A. F. Crutchfield, 1861), 7
50. See also T. S. Winn, God the Arbiter of Battles: A Thanksgiving Sermon (Tuscaloosa, 1860)
51. J. C. Stiles, National Rectitude, the Only True Basis for National Prosperity: An Appeal to the Confederate States (Petersburg, Virginia, Evangelical Tract Society, 1863), 39
52. W. Rees, A Sermon on Divine Providence (Austin, Texas, 1863), 9
53. Romans 7:22
54. William Henry Trescot, The Position and Course of the South (Charleston, Walker and James, 1850), 10
55. [B. M. Palmer], "Import of Hebrew History," Southern Presbyterian Review 9(1856): 582-610
56. Thomasson Diary, 5 October 1861, in Paul D. Escott, ed., North Carolina Yeoman: The Diary of Basil Armstrong Thomasson, 1853-1862 (University of Georgia Press, 1996), 316
57. For Solomon's wives and concubines see Edwin Yamauchi, "Political Background of the Old Testament, in Dockery, et al., eds., Foundations for Biblical Interpretation, 317
58. A. W. Dillard, "The Jewish Nation and Its History," Southern Literary Messenger 35 (1863): 694
59. Southern Presbyterian Review 1 (1847): 36
60. Josephus, Antiquities, vol. 1, 295
61. For Solomon's Egyptian wife and the attendant politics see Ahlström, History of Palestine, 519-20
62. For a concise analysis of centralization of power under David and Solomon, the development of a professional organization and labor conditions, see Harry M. Orlinsky, Ancient Israel, 2nd ed. (Cornell University Press, 1960), 64-66, 74-76, 81-82, 99
63. see the hints in De Bow's Review 15 (1853): 543
64. Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Address Delivered before Hopewell Presbytery, the Board of Trustees of Oglethorpe College (Milledgeville, Georgia, 1837), 21
65. Saint Augustine, The City of God, tr. Marcus Dods (Random House, Inc., 1950), 602
66. Thomas à Kempis, "Imitation of Christ," in Irwin Edman, ed., Consolation of Philosophy (Modern Library, 1943), 282
67. Dew, Digest, 11-13, 357-58, quote at 14
68. Richard D. Nelson, First and Second Kings (John Knox, 1987), 42, 64, 72, 77, 101
69. For the text of Meade's sermon see Elizabeth Wright Weddell, St. Paul's Church, Richmond: Its Historic Years and Memorials, 2 vols. (Richmond, William Byrd Press, 1931), vol. 1, 141-47
70. Emma Holmes, 13 June 1861, in John F. Marszalek, ed., The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866 (Louisiana State University Press, 1979), 57
71. Monroe to Calhoun, 4 August 1828, in Papers of John C. Calhoun, vol. 10, 409
72. Claude H. Hall, Abel Parker Upshur: Conservative Virginian, 1790-1844 (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963), 92
73. Ferdinand Jacobs, The Committing of Our Cause to God (Charleston, 18 5 o), 4, 22
74. B. M. Palmer, The Fife and Letters of James Henley Thornwell, see Thornwell to Breckinridge, 28 March 1851, 477
75. and Thornwell, "Our Danger and Our Duty," Appendix 2, 582
76. Dwight L. Dumond, ed., Southern Editorials on Secession (Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1964), 157, 212, 286, 446-47
77. Reynolds, Editors Make War, 167, 204
78. J. L. Reynolds, Church Polity: Or, the Kingdom of Christ in Its Internal and External Development, 2nd ed. (Richmond, 1849), 5-6