The Hebrew republic
Subtitle: Jewish sources and the transformation of European political thought
By: Eric Nelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780674050587
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 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Talmudical commonwealthsmen" and the rise of republican exclusivism; title: "For the land is mine" : the Hebrew commonwealth and the rise of redistribution; title: Hebrew theocracy and the rise of toleration.