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This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present. Each volume includes a selection of texts-from the Bible and Talmud, midrashic literature, legal responsa, treatises, and pamphlets-annotated for mode...

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Awduron Eraill: Walzer, Michael, Lorberbaum, Menachem, 1958-, Zohar, Noʻam, Lorberbaum, Yair
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
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Cyhoeddwyd: New Haven : Yale University Press ©2000.
Cyfres:Jewish political tradition ; 1.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1npm95
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Contents
  • Table of Contents for Volumes Iâ€?IV
  • Foreword. David Hartman
  • Preface and Acknowledgments. Michael Walzer
  • Introduction: The Jewish Political Tradition. Michael Walzer
  • The Selection, Translation, and Presentation of the Texts. Menachem Lorberbaum and Noam J. Zohar
  • Law, Story, and Interpretation: Reading Rabbinic Texts. Michael Fishbank
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Volume I. Authority
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Covenant: Godâ€?s Law and the Peopleâ€?s Consent
  • Chapter 2. Revelation: Torah and Reason
  • Chapter 3. Kings
  • Chapter 4. PriestsChapter 5. Prophets
  • Chapter 6. Rabbis and Sages
  • Chapter 7. Controversy and Dissent
  • Chapter 8. The Good Men of the Town
  • Chapter 9. The Gentile State
  • Chapter 10. The State of Israel
  • Glossary of Names
  • Glossary of Terms
  • List of Commentators
  • Index of Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
  • Index of Names
  • General Index