Covenant & Polity in Biblical Israel: Biblical Foundations & Jewish ExpressionsIn 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
| 1 | |
The Idea | 17 |
Covenant as a Political Concept | 19 |
Covenant and the Origins of Political Society | 35 |
Biblical Origins | 53 |
The Bible and Political Life in Covenant | 75 |
Torah Covenantal Teaching | 95 |
Bereshith The Covenants of Creation | 97 |
Fostering Civic Virtue | 245 |
Joshuas Farewell Addresses | 263 |
Judges The Reality? | 277 |
The Alternate Model | 293 |
Covenant and Kingdom Dealing with Fundamental Regime Change | 295 |
The Institutionalized Federal Monarchy | 319 |
Covenant as Judgment Law and Government | 337 |
Covenant Applied Israelite Political Organization | 349 |
Abraham and His Children Migration and Covenant | 123 |
Federal versus Natural Man | 141 |
Freedom and Covenant Exodus Sinai and Sefer Habrit | 161 |
The Mosaic Polity What Else Happened at Sinai? | 175 |
From Covenant to Constitution Deuteronomy | 193 |
The Classic Biblical Utopia | 225 |
Joshua Gods Federal Republic | 227 |
The Postbiblical Tradition | 365 |
Talmudic Constitutionalism | 367 |
Medieval Covenant Theory | 385 |
Covenant and Polity in the Premodern Jewish Historical Experience | 401 |
The Covenant Tradition in Modernity | 421 |
The Covenant Idea and the Jewish Political Tradition A Summary Statement | 437 |
Common terms and phrases
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