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
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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
Abimelech Abraham ancient Israel authority basis beginning Bible Book of Joshua brit Canaan Canaanite century chap chapter civil classic commandments concept conquest covenant idea covenantal culture David Deuteronomy dimension Divine edah Egypt Elazar elders emphasizes enant Eretz Israel Esau established Exodus framework God's covenant halakhah halakhic Hasmonean hearken Hebrew hesed human institutions involved Isaac Israelites Jacob Jerusalem Jewish community Jewish political tradition Jews Judah Judaism Judges justice Kabbalah ketarim keter keter malkhut keter torah king kingdom kingship Kinship and Consent Knesset land leaders Leo Strauss Lord Maimonides malkhut ment messianic Midrash Mishnah modern monarchy moral Moses nagid Noah obligations organization political thought presented principles promise prophets Psalms Rabbinic reaffirmed referred reflects regime relationship republican response role rule sages Samuel Saul sense Shechem Sinai covenant society Talmud teaching term tion tribal federation tribes University Press unto verse York
Popular passages
Page 167 - But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
Page 210 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 169 - Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 170 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever.
Page 111 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 177 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, "All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient." And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 170 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 168 - And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
Page 170 - ... whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Page 111 - And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you...