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Regarding Israel’s Borders: The Bible is neither a Land Registry nor a Legend

Regarding Israel’s Borders: The Bible is neither a Land Registry nor a Legend

September 3, 2018 | Florence Taubmann
Rejection of politico-religious fundamentalism does not have to lead to ignorance of biblical meanings and their interpretation.
An Inquiry into the Foundations of Law: J. Locke’s Natural Right in the Biblical Scholarship of J. Wellhausen and C.E.B. Cranfield by Terence Kleven

An Inquiry into the Foundations of Law: J. Locke’s Natural Right in the Biblical Scholarship of J. Wellhausen and C.E.B. Cranfield by Terence Kleven

October 20, 1997
This essay is a critical evaluation of John Locke's account of natural right as it is manifest in the biblical scholarship of J. Wellhausen and CE.B. Cranfield. It provides a summary of the accounts of law given by Wellhausen and Cranfield respectively in order to show that certain views of law, that is, certain theological-political teachings, have been central to the emergence of modern biblical scholarship.
Notes for Reading the Bible with John Locke by George Gross

Notes for Reading the Bible with John Locke by George Gross

October 20, 1997
The preference for republican government over monarchy in the He brew Bible appears to be revisited in the writings of the modern political philosophers, especially John Locke. The revival of this preference in the teaching of the moderns occurs in the mode of ideology, and rests upon a new epistemology that skirts the classic contention about the relationship of knowledge and virtue. Even so, the modern teaching is at once an interpretation and a qualified revival of the Scriptural teaching that man is to "be fruitful and multiply, abound in the earth, conquer it and rule" (Genesis 1:28).
The Histories and Successes of the Hebrews: The Demise of the Biblical Polity in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise

The Histories and Successes of the Hebrews: The Demise of the Biblical Polity in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise

April 25, 1995
The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Harvey Shulman

The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Harvey Shulman

April 25, 1995
Reading the Bible with Spinoza by George Gross

Reading the Bible with Spinoza by George Gross

April 25, 1995
Spinoza and the Bible

Spinoza and the Bible

April 25, 1995
John Selden and the Biblical Origins of the Modern International Political System

John Selden and the Biblical Origins of the Modern International Political System

April 27, 1994 | Avraham Berkowitz
In the Shadow of the Mountain: Consent and Coercion at Sinai

In the Shadow of the Mountain: Consent and Coercion at Sinai

April 2, 1992
Deuteronomy as Israel’s Ancient Constitution: Some Preliminary Reflections

Deuteronomy as Israel’s Ancient Constitution: Some Preliminary Reflections

April 2, 1992
The Bible and Intra-Jewish Politics: Early Rabbinic Portraits of King David

The Bible and Intra-Jewish Politics: Early Rabbinic Portraits of King David

April 2, 1991
Biblical Scholarship in the Communist World

Biblical Scholarship in the Communist World

May 1, 1990
Bible and Pedagogy in the Teaching of Western Civilization

Bible and Pedagogy in the Teaching of Western Civilization

October 2, 1989