Biblical Politics
A higher law and the consent of the governed.
Koraḥ’s politics of anger.
What a new study misses about the book of Samuel.
Mordecai the Machiavellian.
The Bible’s ban on homosexual acts is as absurd as its prohibition of shellfish, say gay-rights advocates, thereby mocking Judaism and requiring Christians to undermine. . .
The teeming religious literature of the Second Temple period—shunned by the rabbis of the Talmud—has now been gathered in a three-volume work. But who will. . .
As against the pagan empires of antiquity, biblical civilization chose ordered freedom over both tyranny and anarchy; in today’s Israel, the same concept of liberty. . .
Has the archaeologist and Bible scholar Israel Finkelstein discovered an early “lost kingdom” of northern Israel? No way, assert two different critics.
As the other great texts of Near Eastern antiquity languish in museums or have disappeared, the Bible has endured as a living work. Why?
Of the twelve men sent by Moses to “spy out” the land of Israel, only Caleb and Joshua argue in defense of faith in God’s. . .
Are the highly questionable premises and conclusions of academic Bible studies becoming an article of Orthodox dogma? That way lies surrender, intellectual and otherwise.
From biblical theme parks to Israel-flag hat pins, the ancient and modern land of Israel is deeply embedded in the American imagination.
Few Americans have grasped how deeply the five books of Moses informed the political imagination of early America, a self-consciously “Hebraic” polity.