| The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought Subjects: Jews -- Politics and government -- To 70 A.D; Judaism and politics -- History of doctrines; Politics in rabbinical literature; Political science -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Civilization -- Jewish influences; According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization--the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. |