Title: Covenantal rights
Subtitle: a study in Jewish political theory
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.
Subjects: Civil rights (Jewish law), Politics and government, Judaism, Jews, Philosophy, Human rights, Religious aspects of Human rights, History of doctrines, Civil rights, Jews, politics and government, Human rights, religious aspects, Religious aspects