Reading the Hebrew Bible as the Founding Document of Nationalism https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2019/01/reading-the-hebrew-bible-as-the-founding-document-of-nationalism/

January 9, 2019 | Yoram Hazony
About the author: Yoram Hazony is president of the Herzl Institute and the author of God and Politics in Esther, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, and The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul. His essays on history, politics, and religion appear in a wide variety of publications. His next book, Empire and Nation, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

In the first lecture of his online course on the meaning of Jewish nationalism, which moves from the end of the Hebrew Bible, to God’s message to Abraham in Genesis, to a critique of John Locke, Yoram Hazony argues for the centrality of the nation in scriptural political theory.

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