...This chapter presents a reading of the political philosophy of the Torah, and in particular of the structure of the Hebrew Republic, which is a question that was not only fundamental in early modern republican thought but is also a crucial question in Israel today. It works out one possible way...

... prophet sovereign power sovereignty Esdras Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm charity deception deputy Hebrew Republic narrative natural light piety pious right schismatic sedition council high priest integrity theocracy adaptation Calvinist Hobbes Thomas rule superstition Apostles bondage...

... of the blood pamphlets scientific Loria Achille Tawney R H Wrightson Keith Marx Karl French Marxist middle way virtue historical controversy historical methodology Hebrew republic Sparta Erastianism democracy causation demonstration Harrington engaged in controversies regarding history on two...

... the nation appear to many of its citizens like “a Hebrew Republic.” Names for children and places newly encountered were often taken from the Old Testament, especially during the early nineteenth century in initial white settlement of the Midwest. The many biblical names of the presidents (and even more...

... political thought from the Protestant discovery of ‘God’s constitutional preferences’ in the Old Testament (2–3). Yet Bertram’s Hebrew republic has almost none of the features that in current scholarship make the republican tradition significant: civic participation, negative liberties, subjective rights...

... monarchical and aristocratic despotism and achieve the democratic republic, Spinoza’s other prime illustration of the difficulties involved in moving towards republican stability, the Hebrew Republic of Old Testament times, did actually edge closer to the goal, at least fleetingly, by adopting the principle...

... imposed by Moses in the Hebrew Republic. Acontius Jacob agreement charity church contract doctrine flatterer flattery flattering priest high priest Locke John mob permission right rule society sovereign power sovereignty standard Arminian Calvinist collaterality Erastianism Erastus...

... Protestants biblical supremacy in Authority biblical language used to convey Chosenness Americans' perceptions of Democratization and free will The Hebrew Republic Nelson Humanism Legitimacy biblical language used to convey Renaissance The Acts and Monuments Foxe Calvinism and America–Israel...

... of religious toleration, his view of freedom of conscience is at odds with modern liberal orthodoxy. Dutch Reformed Church Dutch Republic Freedom Peace Piety Religion Sovereign State States of Holland Bible Hebrew Republic Josephus Moses Theocracy Hebrew Civil law Cunaeus P Grotius H History...

...Working out how to devise a balance of power that will uphold liberty and security is the central task of politics; but modern republics can learn how to do this by turning to historical examples, such as the ancient Hebrew Republic founded by Moses and already extolled by Dutch writers...

...Along with many other Dutch republican writers, Spinoza holds that the sovereign must control sacred as well as civil matters, although in doing so he challenges the Dutch Reformed Church. Drawing on the example of the Hebrew Republic, he advocates the unification of civil and religious law...

... polemics. Amsterdam Chambers of rhetoric Coster Samuel Cunaeus Petrus Dutch Revolt Grotius Hebrew Republic Satire Toleration Uytenbogaert Vondel Joost van den Hague The Leiden Reformation Holland Spiegel Hendrik Laurenszoon Zeeland province of Brabant Bredero Gerbrand Adriaansz Hooft P C...