id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt kk91fj26502 Maria Giulia Genghini Prophets of a New Israel — Jesuit Rhetoric in the New World 1904 .txt text/plain 141 4 25 A large quantity of manuscripts survives from the vast network of libraries established by the Jesuits across colonial South America, including many examples of a distinctive kind of Jesuit scriptural meditation. Although the social and economic influence of the Jesuits in South America has been well documented, no study has focused on the literary and theological aspect of these scriptural meditations, or the significant extent to which they reflect the cultural practices of the indigenous communities that the Jesuits were preaching to. cache/kk91fj26502.txt txt/kk91fj26502.txt