Hebrew republic

The Hebrew Republic, also “De Republica Hebraeorum”, and also “Respublica Hebraeorum”, is an early modern concept in political theory in which Christian scholars regarded the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution framing a perfect and republican government designed by God for the children of Israel.[1][2][3]

Among the most notable works in the genre are “De Republica Hebraeorum” by Petrus Cunaeus [4][5] and Eric Nelson's "The Hebrew Republic".[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/NELHEB.html
  2. ↑ Tuck, Richard, Philosophy and government, 1572-1651, Cambridge, 1993, p. 167
  3. ↑ Lea Campos Boralevi, Classical Foundational Myths of European Republicanism: The Jewish Commonwealth, in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, Cambridge University Press, 2002 , p. 258
  4. ↑ Tuck, Richard, Philosophy and government, 1572-1651, Cambridge, 1993, p. 167
  5. ↑ Lea Campos Boralevi, Classical Foundational Myths of European Republicanism: The Jewish Commonwealth, in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, Cambridge University Press, 2002 , p. 258
  6. ↑ Eric Nelson, “The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought” (Harvard University Press, 2010)