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9789657052457

Political Hebraism Judaic Sources in Early Modern Political Thought

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    9789657052457

  • ISBN10:

    9657052459

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-09-08
  • Publisher: Shalem Press
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Summary

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, European political philosophy felt intimately at home with the Hebrew Bible, enjoyed some familiarity with later Jewish texts and exegeses, and accommodated a small number of Jews within its political discourse. The period was characterized by a search for Hebraica Veritas, a view of De Republica Hebraeorum as the idealized polity, and biblical and Jewish ideas permeating the political imagination through art, literature, and legal codes. This volume is comprised of papers from the first ever international conference on political Hebraism held in Jerusalem in August 2004 under the auspices of the Shalem Center. The topic of political Hebraism is broached here from a number of approaches, including historical, literary, philosophical, theological, critical, and sociopolitical.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. vii
Early Years
Political Theology in Renaissance Christian Kabbala: Petrus Galatinus and Guillaume Postelp. 3
Machiavelli on Reading the Bible Judiciouslyp. 29
The Bible as a Model for Politics
Political Hebraism and the Early Modern 'Respublica Hebraeorum': On Defining the Fieldp. 57
Some Thoughts on the Covenantal Politics of Johannes Althusiusp. 72
Why Draw a Politics from Scripture? Bossuet and the Divine Right of Kingsp. 90
The Dutch Republic
"How Wondrously Moses Goes Along with the House of Orange!" Hugo Grotius' 'De Republica Emendanda' in the Context of the Dutch Revoltp. 107
The Biblical 'Jewish Republic' and the Dutch New Israel in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Thoughtp. 148
Spinoza's Theological-Political Problemp. 167
Seventeenth-Century England
Rabbinic Ideas in the Political Thought of John Seldenp. 191
After Machiavelli and Hobbes: James Harrington's Commonwealth of Israelp. 207
The Political Thought of John Locke and the Significance of Political Hebraism: Then and Nowp. 231
The State of the Field
The Judeo-Christian Tradition as Imposition: Present at the Creation?p. 259
Contributorsp. 283
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