The Four Kingdoms of the Image, and the Stone Kingdom. The Dream of Nebuchadnezzar, interpreted by Daniel, Chapter 2.
- Title:
- The Four Kingdoms of the Image, and the Stone Kingdom. The Dream of Nebuchadnezzar, interpreted by Daniel, Chapter 2.
- Alternate Title:
- The Dream of Nebuchadnezzar
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Hall, J.J.
- Other Creators:
- Greater Yarmouth British-Israel Association
- Date:
- 1927
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1224.01
- File Name:
- PJM_1224_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Religion
Ethnocentrism
Unusual Graphics/Text - Measurement:
- 17 x 20 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map supports the views of the British Israelite movement. The movement has been described as a melange of "Protestant apocalypticism, British nationalism, New Age belief, and racial pseudo-science." Cottrell-Boyce 2021. According to the British Israelites, the white, Protestant people of Britain - including the British royal family - are directly descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel, specifically the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. As such, these Protestant "Anglo Saxons," including Americans and others from the British Colonies, are divinely blessed and the inheritors of the biblical prophecies and promises bestowed on the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. From the end of the 19th century until World War II, the movement flourished in Britain and spread to the United States and Canada. See generally Kidd 2006, 43-44 & ch. 7. In the view of many historians and religious scholars, British Israelites "propagated a religious justification for white superiority," and "served to sanctify the British imperialist enterprise," as well as American Manifest Destiny and sometimes virulent anti-Semitism. Ibid 213-14, 220.
The map Illustrates a book by Basil Stewart in which, among other things, he analyzes the famous dream of Nebuchadnezzar as analyzed by Daniel. In the dream, an immense statue made of four metals (gold, silver, brass and iron) is destroyed by a stone "not cut by human hands." Daniel interprets the dream as revealing that four successive empires, beginning with Babylon, will be destroyed by the kingdom of God, leading the king to acknowledge the primacy of Daniel's God. Stewart rejects the view that the fifth empire is the kingdom of God and adopts the position of the British Israelites: "This fifth empire is nothing other than the British Monarchy." (p.45) The map supports this position by showing a reclining figure representing the great statute of Daniel, with the head (of gold) in Babylon, the breast and arms (of silver) in Medo-Persia, the body and thighs (of brass) in Greece, and the legs and feet (of iron and clay) in France and Germany - all pointing west to "The Stone Kingdom The British Isles."
The map was produced by J.J. Hall (who name appears at the bottom right), an illustrator who belonged to the movement. Verschuur 1915, 40. It was published by the Greater Yarmouth British-Israel Association.
The collection includes other British Israelite materials: Search > "Israelite."
For other examples of geographic and cartographic pseudo-science in the collection, Search > "pseudo*".
For other religious charts and timelines in the collection, Search > "Religious Charts."
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Stewart, Basil ("Discipulus"). 1927. The Witness of the Great Pyramid. An Exposition concerning the Anglo-Saxon Race, their Identity, History, and Destiny, as revealed by Scripture and the Great Pyramid, with special reference to current events. London: The Covenant Publishing Co.
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.