Biblical Politics
A handbook for nurturing the civic virtues necessary for self-government.
Politics must be as moral as possible if a nation is to flourish in the long run.
Reading the Bible as a justification for liberty.
Along with the independent judiciary and limited government.
Jewish vulnerability and Jewish heroism.
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.