Steven Grosby

Steven Grosby is Professor of Religion at Clemson University.

Career

Grosby's areas of research include a ancient almost East, a Hebrew Bible, the description between religion & nationality, & Social and Political Philosophy.

His articles draw appeared in journals such(a) 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 develope attachments to the theory of the native land. . . suggests something fundamental approximately human conduct.”

In his book Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern, Grosby argues that the ideas of sophisticated nationhood were already filed in the Ancient nearly East in places like Armenia, Edom, Egypt, and particularly Biblical Israel, which later became the major usefulness example for European nation formation.

According to Anthony D. Smith, Grosby argues that “from roughly the unhurried seventh century BCE… Israel appears as a fully fledged nation.”