Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel (eBook, PDF)

Volume 1, Biblical Foundations and Jewish Expressions: Covenant Tradition in Politics
Redaktion: Elazar, Daniel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, and the political arrangements that flow from it,

Among the topics covered are covenant as a political concept, the Bible as a political commentary, the post-biblical tradition, medieval covenant theory, and Jewish political culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 477
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351313155
• Artikelnr.: 57892191

Autorenporträt

Edietd by Daniel Elazar

Inhaltsangabe

I: The Idea
1: Covenant as a Political Concept
2: Covenant and the Origins of Political Society
3: Biblical Origins
4: The Bible and Political Life in Covenant
II: Torah: Covenantal Teaching
5: Bereshith: The Covenants of Creation
6: Abraham and His Children: Migration and Covenant
7: Federal versus Natural Man
8: Freedom and Covenant: Exodus, Sinai, and Sefer Habrit
9: The Mosaic Polity: What Else Happened at Sinai?
10: From Covenant to Constitution: Deuteronomy
III: The Classic Biblical Utopia
11: Joshua: God's Federal Republic
12: Fostering Civic Virtue
13: Joshua's Farewell Addresses
14: Judges: The Reality?
IV: The Alternate Model
15: Covenant and Kingdom: Dealing with Fundamental Regime Change
16: The Institutionalized Federal Monarchy
17: Covenant as Judgment, Law, and Government
18: Covenant Applied: Israelite Political Organization
V: The Postbiblical Tradition
19: Talmudic Constitutionalism
20: Medieval Covenant Theory
21: Covenant and Polity in the Premodern Jewish Historical Experience
22: The Covenant Tradition in Modernity
23: The Covenant Idea and the Jewish Political Tradition: A Summary Statement