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Is There a Jewish Political Tradition?
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* The Jewish Political Tradition, Volume 1: Authority, eds. Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum. Yale University Press, 2000.
The claim that post-biblical Jewish thought is devoid of reflection on political questions has a formidable, if unorthodox, pedigree. Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise features a devastating and influential formulation of the view that, deprived of a state, Jews have been indifferent to the questions of authority, power, and obligation that concern Western political theorists. While Spinoza extols Moses' astuteness as a theorist of mass political behavior and celebrates the contribution of Jewish ritual to the …
