God's Rule
Subtitle: The Politics of World Religions
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: May 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780878409105
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Religion & Beliefs; Religion and politics; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Comparative Religion; Religion / Comparative Religion; Religion, Politics & State
First sentence: WHEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL CAME INTO BEING, IN 1948, NO ONE IMAGINED PUTTING into effect, as state law, the Halakhah, or legal system of Scripture as extended and realized in the law books of formative Judaism, Scripture as amplified by the Rabbinic writings of the first six centuries C.E.