The Mosaic Constitution

Author : Graham Hammill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226315423

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The Mosaic Constitution by Graham Hammill Pdf

It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in The Mosaic Constitution, arguing that Moses’s constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central to early modern writings about government and state. Hammill shows how political writers from Machiavelli to Spinoza drew on Mosaic narrative to imagine constitutional forms of government. At the same time, literary writers like Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, and John Milton turned to Hebrew scripture to probe such fundamental divisions as those between populace and multitude, citizenship and race, and obedience and individual choice. As these writers used biblical narrative to fuse politics with the creative resources of language, Mosaic narrative also gave them a means for exploring divine authority as a product of literary imagination. The first book to place Hebrew scripture at the cutting edge of seventeenth-century literary and political innovation, The Mosaic Constitution offers a fresh perspective on political theology and the relations between literary representation and the founding of political communities.

Author : Rene Holaday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578948885

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4-4-4 by Rene Holaday Pdf

A book about Mosaic Law and Constitutional Law with emphasis on Article 4. Section 4. of the US Constitution.

Author : Stuart Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Slavery
ISBN : UOM:39015027588824

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Slavery, as Recognized in the Mosaic Civil Law, Recognized Also, and Allowed, in the Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Christian Church, Being One of a Series of Sabbath Evening Discourses on the Laws of Moses by Stuart Robinson Pdf

Author : Daniel H. Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009221665

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Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence by Daniel H. Weiss Pdf

Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as the image of God. He demonstrates how classical rabbinic literature is relevant to contemporary political and philosophical debates. Weiss brings to light striking political aspects of the writings of the modern Jewish philosophers, who have often been understood as non-political. In addition, he shows how the four modern thinkers are more radical and more shaped by Jewish tradition than has previously been thought. Taken as a whole, Weiss' book argues for a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between Judaism and politics, the history of Jewish thought, and the ethical and political dynamics of the broader Western philosophical tradition.

Author : Vesting, Thomas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788979320

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State Theory and the Law by Vesting, Thomas Pdf

There has been renewed and growing interest in exploring the significant role played by law in the centralization of power and sovereignty – right from the earliest point. This timely book serves as an introduction into state theory, providing an overview of the conceptual history and the interdisciplinary tradition of the continental European general theory of the state.

Author : Donald MACDONALD (Minister of the Free Church, Edinkillie.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026646265

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Introduction to the Pentateuch: an Inquiry, Critical and Doctrinal, Into the Genuineness, Authority, and Design of the Mosaic Writings by Donald MACDONALD (Minister of the Free Church, Edinkillie.) Pdf

Author : Neil Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 1472565592

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Europe's Constitutional Mosaic by Neil Walker Pdf

This book emerged from an extended seminar series held in Edinburgh Law School which sought to explore the complex constitutional arrangements of the European legal space as an inter-connected mosaic. There has been much recent debate concerning the constitutional future of Europe, focusing almost exclusively upon the EU in the context of the (failed) Constitutional Treaty of 2003-5 and the subsequent Treatyof Lisbon. The premise of the book is that this focus, while indispensable, offers only a partial vision of the complex constitutional terrain of contemporary Europe. In addition, it is ess.

Author : Christopher Houston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030796570

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Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey by Christopher Houston Pdf

In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy. In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine. In distinguishing anthropocracy from varieties of other secular and laicist political arrangements, as well as from theocracy, this book also gives readers a brilliant solution to what it calls the Turkish puzzle, the dilemma over how to best describe and analyze state-religion and state-society relations in the Turkish Republic. This work convincingly undermines two orthodox presumptions about Turkish politics: the claim that Turkish modernity should be considered an example of secularity; and the accusation that the current AKP government should be interpreted as Islamic. On the contrary, it argues that both Kemalism and the AKP continue to institute an anthropocratic Republic.

Author : Reyes Mate
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004458765

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Memory of the West by Reyes Mate Pdf

This book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning.

Author : Daniel J. Elazar
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1412820510

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Covenant & Polity in Biblical Israel by Daniel J. Elazar Pdf

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.

Author : Christine Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107036154

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The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law by Christine Hayes Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

Author : Robert A. Goldwin
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 084473618X

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How Federal is the Constitution? by Robert A. Goldwin Pdf

This book discusses the degree of federalism contained within the Constitution.

Author : Isaac Leeser
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781429019125

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The Jews and the Mosaic Law by Isaac Leeser Pdf

With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

Author : Dustin Gish,Andrew Bibby
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813944487

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Rival Visions by Dustin Gish,Andrew Bibby Pdf

The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envisioned the newly independent states as a federation of republics united by common experience, mutual interest, and an adherence to principles of natural rights. His views on popular government and the American experiment in republicanism, and later the expansion of its empire of liberty, offered an influential account of the new nation. While persuasive in crucial respects, his vision of early America did not stand alone as an unrivaled model. The contributors to Rival Visions examine how Jefferson’s contemporaries—including Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Madison, and Marshall—articulated their visions for the early American republic. Even beyond America, in this age of successive revolutions and crises, foreign statesmen began to formulate their own accounts of the new nation, its character, and its future prospects. This volume reveals how these vigorous debates and competing rival visions defined the early American republic in the formative epoch after the revolution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN : OXFORD:590392786

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The Freethinking Christians' Magazine by Anonim Pdf