Political Hebraism : Judaic sources in early modern political thought / edited by Gordon Schochet, Fania Oz-Salzberger, and Meirav Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schochet, Gordon.

Oz-Salzberger, Fania.

Jones, Meirav.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism and politics--17th century--Congresses.

Judaism and politics.

Jews--Politics and government--Philosophy--Congresses.

Jews.

Judaism and state--17th century--Congresses.

Judaism and state.

Jews--Politics and government--Philosophy.

Jews--Politics and government.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xix, 287 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jerusalem ; New York : Shalem Press, [2008]

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.

The conference that produced this volume was the first international scholarly effort to explore the scope and significance of early modern political Hebraism: the use of Hebrew and Jewish sources for politics and political thought at the founding moment of the modern West. Aptly set in Jerusalem, the conference gathered sixty scholars and advanced students from around the world who had been independently exploring aspects of the topic at hand and who were for the most part unaware of one another's work. Contributions came from a variety of fields, ranging from political science, theology, literature, history, Jewish thought, and law. Following the conference, a peer-reviewed quarterly was launched, Hebraic Political Studies, which would explore Jewish political thought and the impact of Hebraic sources on the political thought of the West. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Early Years

Political Theology in Renaissance Christian Kabbala: Petrus Galatinus and Guillaume Postel / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann 3

Machiavelli on Reading the Bible Judiciously / Christopher Lynch 29

II The Bible as a Model for Politics

Political Hebraism and the Early Modern 'Respublica Hebraeorum': On Defining the Field / Kalman Neuman 57

Some Thoughts on the Covenantal Politics of Johannes Althusius / Alan Mittleman 72

Why Draw a Politics from Scripture? Bossuet and the Divine Right of Kings / Emile Perreau-Saussine 90

III The Dutch Republic

"How Wondrously Moses Goes Along with the House of Orange!" Hugo Grotius' 'De Republica Emendanda' in the Context of the Dutch Revolt / Arthur Eyffinger 107

The Biblical 'Jewish Republic' and the Dutch New Israel in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Thought / Miriam Bodian 148

Spinoza's Theological-Political Problem / Menachem Lorberbaum 167

IV Seventeenth-Century England

Rabbinic Ideas in the Political Thought of John Selden / Jason Rosenblatt 191

After Machiavelli and Hobbes: James Harrington's Commonwealth of Israel / Gary Remer 207

The Political Thought of John Locke and the Significance of Political Hebraism: Then and Now / Fania Oz-Salzberger 231

V The State of the Field

The Judeo-Christian Tradition as Imposition: Present at the Creation? / Gordon Schochet 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"The conference ... took place in Jerusalem in August 2004"--Introd.

ISBN:

9789657052457

9657052459

OCLC:

144521111