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For two centuries the academic study of the Bible has confronted the believing Jew with the most challenging of questions: Are the accounts of the Tanakh historically accurate? Was there an Exodus? Why does the… »
Plato's 'Republic' constructs an ideal city composed of three parts, parallel to the soul's reason, appetites, and fighting spirit. But confusion and controversy have long surrounded this three-way division and… »
The Question of God's Perfection brings together leading scholars from the Jewish and Christian traditions to critically examine the theology of perfect being in light of the Hebrew Bible and classical rabbinic… »
Nationalism is the issue of our age. In The Virtue of Nationalism, Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony makes the positive case for nationalism in an honest, reasoned, morally unflinching way. This book offers an… »
John Locke's treatises on government make frequent reference to the Hebrew Bible, while references to the New Testament are almost completely absent. To date, scholarship has not addressed this surprising… »
Justice for All demonstrates that the Jewish Bible, by radically changing the course of ethical thought, came to exercise enormous influence on Jewish thought and law and also laid the basis for Christian… »
Legal and political theorist, common lawyer and parliamentary leader, historian and polyglot, John Selden (1584-1654) was a formidable figure in Renaissance England, whose real importance and influence are now… »
Inconsistencies in the Torah is a critical intellectual history of the theories of textual growth in biblical studies. The historical critical approach to the Pentateuch has long relied upon scholarly intuition… »
At first glance, the biblical story of Esther seems anything but religious: God isn’t mentioned once. Instead, we have a taut political thriller describing the crisis that erupts when the Persian… »
What if the Hebrew Bible wasn't meant to be read as “revelation”? What if it's not really about miracles or the afterlife – but about how to lead our lives in this world? The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture… »
Trigano is one of the greatest Jewish philosophers and theologians of our time, and Philosophy of the Law: The Political in the Torah is his masterwork. Through biblical exegesis and philosophical examination,… »
Is the Shoah a unique event or just one of the many genocides that have occurred and continue to occur in modern history? In The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah, Shmuel Trigano begins with the hypothesis that the… »
In Created Equal, Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective, considering it as a document of social and political thought. He proposes that the Pentateuch can be read as the… »
Aaron Wildavsky, a giant of American political science, brings his profound understanding of human affairs to bear on the founding of the world's most enduring political community, the nation of Israel.… »
This classic work by one of the leading academic scholars of the Hebrew Bible takes on the foundations of modern biblical theory. Serves as a valuable introduction to Cassuto's illuminating commentaries on the… »
A selection of articles addressing those fundamental questions that define the agenda for the Jewish state in the 21st century. Among the authors one can find key figures in the Israeli public dialogue, such as… »
A graphic portrayal of the cultural and political revolt against Israel’s status as the Jewish state, examining trends in academia, literature, media, law, the armed forces, and the foreign policy… »
When thinking of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem, one often conjures up images of animal sacrifice, pilgrimages to the Holy City on religious festivals, and the High Priest solemnly entering the Holy of Holies… »
