Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Jerusalem ; New York : Shalem Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schochet, Gordon J., 1937-
• Oz-Salzberger, Fania.
• Jones, Meirav.

Description

xix, 287 p.; 24 cm.

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.

Subject

• 1600-1699
• Geschichte 1550-1700
• Judaism and politics > 17th century > Congresses
• Jews > Politics and government > Philosophy > Congresses
• Judaism and state > 17th century > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Meirav Jones -- I. Early years -- Political theology in Renaissance Christian Kabbala : Petrus Galatinus and Guillaume Postel / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- Machiavelli on reading the Bible judiciously / Christopher Lynch -- II. The Bible as a model for politics -- Political Hebraism and the early modern 'Respublica Hebraeorum' : on defining the field / Kalman Neuman -- Some thoughts on the covenantal politics of Johannes Althusius / Alan Mittleman -- Why draw a politics from scripture? Bossuet and the divine right of kings / Emile Perreau-Saussine -- 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 -- The biblical 'Jewish Republic' and the Dutch New Israel in seventeenth-century Dutch thought / Miriam Bodian -- Spinoza's theological-political problem / Menachem Lorberbaum -- IV. Seventeenth-century England -- Rabbinic ideas in the political thought of John Selden / Jason Rosenblatt -- After Machiavelli and Hobbes : James Harrington's Commonwealth of Israel / Gary Remer -- The political thought of John Locke and the significance of political Hebraism : then and now / Fania Oz-Salzberger -- V. The state of the field -- The Judeo-Christian tradition as imposition : present at the creation? / Gordon Schochet

ISBN

• 9789657052457
• 9657052459
• 9789657052440
• 9657052440

OCLC

• 144521111
• SCSB-10766611

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library