Biblical Politics

A higher law and the consent of the governed.

Jan. 25 2019 12:01AM

Koraḥ’s politics of anger.

June 15 2018 12:01AM

Rising Moon.

May 26 2017 12:01AM

What a new study misses about the book of Samuel.

April 20 2017 12:01AM

Mordecai the Machiavellian.

Feb. 23 2016 12:01AM

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. . .

Emily A. Filler
Aug. 7 2014 12:01AM

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. . .

Shaye Cohen
July 30 2014 12:01AM

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. . .

July 29 2014 12:01AM

Has the archaeologist and Bible scholar Israel Finkelstein discovered an early “lost kingdom” of northern Israel? No way, assert two different critics.

Aaron Burke
July 14 2014 12:01AM

As the other great texts of Near Eastern antiquity languish in museums or have disappeared, the Bible has endured as a living work. Why?

Jacob L. Wright
June 19 2014 12:01AM

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. . .

Tamir Granot
June 13 2014 12:01AM

Are the highly questionable premises and conclusions of academic Bible studies becoming an article of Orthodox dogma? That way lies surrender, intellectual and otherwise.

May 28 2014 12:01AM

From biblical theme parks to Israel-flag hat pins, the ancient and modern land of Israel is deeply embedded in the American imagination.

Jenna Weissman Joselit
May 15 2014 12:01AM

Few Americans have grasped how deeply the five books of Moses informed the political imagination of early America, a self-consciously “Hebraic” polity. 

Peter J. Leithart
May 12 2014 12:01AM