Covenantal rights
Subtitle: a study in Jewish political theory
By: David Novak.
Series: New forum books
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780691026800
Subjects: Civil rights (Jewish law); Jews -- Politics and government -- Philosophy; Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History of doctrines
Description: "Covenantal Rights is a work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought. David Novak pursues these aims by presenting a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition.

In doing so, he presents a powerful challenge to prevailing liberal and conservative positions on rights and duties and opens a new chapter in contemporary Jewish political thinking."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.