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Covenantal rights : a study in Jewish political theory

Title: Covenantal rights : a study in Jewish political theory / David Novak.
Author: Novak, David, 1941-
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.

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Description

xii, 240 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Covenantal Rights is a work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought. David Novak pursues these aims by presenting a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition. In doing so, he presents a powerful challenge to prevailing liberal and conservative positions on rights and duties and opens a new chapter in contemporary Jewish political thinking."--Jacket.

Series Statement

New forum books

Uniform Title

New forum books.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- God and human persons -- Human persons and God -- God and covenanted community -- Covenanted community and God -- Between human persons -- Covenanted community and human persons -- Human persons and covenanted community.

ISBN

0691026807
9780691026800
9780691144375
0691144370

LCCN

99032287

OCLC

ocm41445749
41445749
SCSB-1031923

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library