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Politics and the Limits of Law : Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences SeriesPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804780049
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics and the Limits of LawDDC classification:
  • 296.3/82/0902
LOC classification:
  • BM645
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: DIVINE LAW AND SECULAR POLITICS -- PART 1: MAIMONIDES -- 1 THE NATURAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS -- 2 THE INSUFFICIENCY OF LAW -- 3 THE CODE ON THE PRIORITY OF POLITICS -- 4 CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS AND MESSIANIC RESOLUTION -- PART 2: GERONDI -- 5 THE KAHAL AS A POLITY -- 6 THE AUTONOMY OF POLITICS -- CONCLUSION: SECULARIZING POLITICS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NAME INDEX -- GENERAL INDEX -- CONTRAVERSIONS jews and other differences.
Summary: This book explores the emergence of the fundamental political concepts of medieval Jewish thought, arguing that alongside the well-known theocratic elements of the Bible there exists a vital tradition that conceives of politics as a necessary and legitimate domain of worldly activity that preceded religious law in the ordering of society.
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Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: DIVINE LAW AND SECULAR POLITICS -- PART 1: MAIMONIDES -- 1 THE NATURAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS -- 2 THE INSUFFICIENCY OF LAW -- 3 THE CODE ON THE PRIORITY OF POLITICS -- 4 CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS AND MESSIANIC RESOLUTION -- PART 2: GERONDI -- 5 THE KAHAL AS A POLITY -- 6 THE AUTONOMY OF POLITICS -- CONCLUSION: SECULARIZING POLITICS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NAME INDEX -- GENERAL INDEX -- CONTRAVERSIONS jews and other differences.

This book explores the emergence of the fundamental political concepts of medieval Jewish thought, arguing that alongside the well-known theocratic elements of the Bible there exists a vital tradition that conceives of politics as a necessary and legitimate domain of worldly activity that preceded religious law in the ordering of society.

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