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Average Reign
Barley Harvest
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Birthright Citizenship
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Davidic Ancestry
Draw Back
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Face To Face
Hebrew Bible analysis
Ira Sharkansky
Israelite Monarchs
Jeremiah's Prophecy
Jeremiah’s Prophecy
Jewish Liturgy
Joshua's Death
Joshua’s Death
King's Gate
King’s Gate
leadership in scripture
Mass Circumcision
Matthew's Genealogy
Matthew’s Genealogy
New Testament studies
Noah's Curse
Noah's Drunkenness
Noah’s Curse
Noah’s Drunkenness
Paul R. Abramson
Philistine Woman
political philosophy history
religion and politics
scriptural interpretation
Solomon's Reign
Solomon’s Reign
Traditional Hebrew Text
Tribal Allotment
Violate
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781412843102
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Bible is fundamental to Western culture. Political philosophers from Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau to modern political theorists such as George H. Sabine, Leo Strauss, and Sheldon S. Wolin have drawn upon biblical examples. American political leaders, such as Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, and William Jennings Bryan all drew heavily upon the Bible. Today, most contemporary politicians display less familiarity with Scripture although many proudly proclaim themselves to be born-again Christians.Politics in the Bible has a simple goal: to help readers to think critically about how the Bible illuminates understanding of justice, leadership, and politics. For a political scientist, there are great advantages to studying the Bible. Students of the Bible have short texts to analyze, but they have a history of two thousand years of Jewish and Christian scholarly discussion. In that tradition, Paul R. Abramson analyzes stories drawn from eighteen of the thirty-nine books of the Hebrew Bible and fifteen of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament.Abramson argues that the Bible is a book that should be read even by those who do not believe it has any transcendent significance. One can choose to read it as the revealed word of God, as a source of Western morality, as a compilation of interesting stories, poetry, and history, or as a work of great literature. Although this book discusses selected stories that have political implications, it also considers parts that have literary merit. This unusual volume may stimulate new thinking about the Bible as a source of insight into political ideas.
