The Hebrew Republic : : Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought /

The Hebrew Republic : : Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought / / Eric Nelson.

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 thoug...

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Nelson, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "Talmudical Commonwealthsmen" and the Rise of Republican Exclusivism
  • Chapter 2. "For the Land Is Mine": The Hebrew Commonwealth and the Rise of Redistribution
  • Chapter 3. Hebrew Theocracy and the Rise of Toleration
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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