Author: Gordon J. Schochet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Political Hebraism
Author: Gordon J. Schochet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible
Author: Yechiel M. Leiter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428185
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428185
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?
The Hebrew Republic
Author: Eric Nelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674050587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. In the book’s central chapters, Nelson identifies three transformative claims introduced into European political theory by the Hebrew revival: the argument that republics are the only legitimate regimes; the idea that the state should coercively maintain an egalitarian distribution of property; and the belief that a godly republic would tolerate religious diversity. One major consequence of Nelson’s work is that the revolutionary politics of John Milton, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes appear in a brand-new light. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674050587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. In the book’s central chapters, Nelson identifies three transformative claims introduced into European political theory by the Hebrew revival: the argument that republics are the only legitimate regimes; the idea that the state should coercively maintain an egalitarian distribution of property; and the belief that a godly republic would tolerate religious diversity. One major consequence of Nelson’s work is that the revolutionary politics of John Milton, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes appear in a brand-new light. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.
Socrates and the Jews
Author: Miriam Leonard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226472477
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226472477
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.
Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660)
Author: Stephen G. Burnett
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004222499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Christian Hebraism in early modern Europe has traditionally been interpreted as the pursuit of a few exceptional scholars, but in the sixteenth century it became an intellectual movement involving hundreds of authors and printers and thousands of readers. The Reformation transformed Christian Hebrew scholarship into an academic discipline, supported by both Catholics and Protestants. This book places Christian Hebraism in a larger context by discussing authors and their books as mediators of Jewish learning, printers and booksellers as its transmitters, and the impact of press controls in shaping the public discussion of Hebrew and Jewish texts. Both Jews and Jewish converts played an important role in creating this new and unprecedented form of Jewish learning.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004222499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Christian Hebraism in early modern Europe has traditionally been interpreted as the pursuit of a few exceptional scholars, but in the sixteenth century it became an intellectual movement involving hundreds of authors and printers and thousands of readers. The Reformation transformed Christian Hebrew scholarship into an academic discipline, supported by both Catholics and Protestants. This book places Christian Hebraism in a larger context by discussing authors and their books as mediators of Jewish learning, printers and booksellers as its transmitters, and the impact of press controls in shaping the public discussion of Hebrew and Jewish texts. Both Jews and Jewish converts played an important role in creating this new and unprecedented form of Jewish learning.
Theology, Politics, and Exegesis
Author: Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532614934
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores biblical scholarship from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries and then discusses its new place in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century where such scholarship would flourish. Far from merely an objective and neutral method, such scholarship was never without philosophical, theological, and political underpinnings. Morrow concludes the volume with a look at the separation of biblical studies from theology, using the example of Catholic moral theology in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532614934
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores biblical scholarship from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries and then discusses its new place in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century where such scholarship would flourish. Far from merely an objective and neutral method, such scholarship was never without philosophical, theological, and political underpinnings. Morrow concludes the volume with a look at the separation of biblical studies from theology, using the example of Catholic moral theology in the twentieth century.
The Politics of Jewish Commerce
Author: Jonathan Karp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139472348
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews' status in Italy, Britain, France and Germany during the course of two centuries. It delineates the common themes that informed these debates - the ideal republic and the 'ancient constitution', the conflict between virtue and commerce, and the notion of useful and productive labor. It thus provides an overview of the political-economic dimensions of Jewish emancipation literature of this period. This overview is viewed against the backdrop of broader controversies within European society over the effects of commerce on inherited political values and institutions. By focusing on economic attitudes toward Jews, the book also illuminates European intellectual approaches toward economic modernity. By elucidating these general debates, it renders more contemporary Jewish economic self-conceptions - and the enormous impetus that Jewish reformist movements placed on the Jews' economic and occupational transformation - fully explicable.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139472348
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews' status in Italy, Britain, France and Germany during the course of two centuries. It delineates the common themes that informed these debates - the ideal republic and the 'ancient constitution', the conflict between virtue and commerce, and the notion of useful and productive labor. It thus provides an overview of the political-economic dimensions of Jewish emancipation literature of this period. This overview is viewed against the backdrop of broader controversies within European society over the effects of commerce on inherited political values and institutions. By focusing on economic attitudes toward Jews, the book also illuminates European intellectual approaches toward economic modernity. By elucidating these general debates, it renders more contemporary Jewish economic self-conceptions - and the enormous impetus that Jewish reformist movements placed on the Jews' economic and occupational transformation - fully explicable.
New Essays on Zionism
Author: David Hazony
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A selection of articles addressing those fundamental questions that define the agenda for the Jewish state in the 21st century. Among the authors one can find key figures in the Israeli public dialogue, such as Ruth Gavison, Yoram Hazony, Michael Oren, Amnom Rubinstein, and Natan Sharansky.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A selection of articles addressing those fundamental questions that define the agenda for the Jewish state in the 21st century. Among the authors one can find key figures in the Israeli public dialogue, such as Ruth Gavison, Yoram Hazony, Michael Oren, Amnom Rubinstein, and Natan Sharansky.
Philosemitism in History
Author: Jonathan Karp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A broad and ambitious overview of the significance of philosemitism in European and world history, from antiquity to the present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A broad and ambitious overview of the significance of philosemitism in European and world history, from antiquity to the present.
American Zion
Author: Eran Shalev
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300186924
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
DIV A wide-ranging exploration of early Americans’ use of the Old Testament for political purposes /div
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300186924
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
DIV A wide-ranging exploration of early Americans’ use of the Old Testament for political purposes /div