Abstract
Perhaps the most controversial part of my remarks will be an insistence on the antiquity of nationalism, nationalism as coeval with religion. Standard modern textbooks on nationalism generally date its emergence from the late eighteenth century. It might be more fruitful to think of what happened in the late eighteenth century not as an emergence but as a separation-the separation of nationalism from religion. Nationalism-or proto-nationalism if you prefer-had been conjoined with religion in antiquity, in both branches of our JudeoHellenic heritage. The Hellenic side had the religious cults of those who fell for the polis and the patria. The Hebrew Bible, even more strikingly, had the concepts of the Chosen People and the Promised Land, surely a nationalist combination.
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