Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel: Volume 1, Biblical Foundations and Jewish Expressions: Covenant Tradition in Politics

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Daniel Elazar
Routledge, 8. okt 2018 - 477 pages

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.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
The Idea
17
Torah Covenantal Teaching
95
The Classic Biblical Utopia
225
The Alternate Model
293
The Postbiblical Tradition
365
Index
461
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