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The Paradoxical Politics of the Hebrew Bible
Lessons without simplistic messages.
Yoram Hazony
Yoram Hazony is president of the Herzl Institute and the author of God and Politics in Esther, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, and The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul. His essays on history, politics, and religion appear in a wide variety of publications. His next book, Empire and Nation, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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Reading the Hebrew Bible as the Founding Document of Nationalism
With an exegesis of the Tanakh’s final verses.
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Understanding the Bible’s Political Teachings
Hebrew Scripture rejects the divine right of kings.
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Judaism, Nationalism, and Conservatism Are Three Complementary Philosophies
Against imperialism from Assyria to the EU.
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American Policy Would Benefit from Keeping in Mind Who in the Middle East Blesses the U.S., and Who Curses It
A tale of two speeches.
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Bringing God Back to the University
How Alvin Plantinga cleared the way for the philosophy of religion.
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The Anglo-American Conservative Tradition and Its Surprising Jewish Roots
John Fortescue’s Mosaic constitution and John Selden’s Noahide Laws.
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The Meaning of the Revelation at Sinai
Why didn’t Moses receive the Torah at the bottom of the mountain?
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Nationalism vs. Transnationalism—a Jewish Perspective
Nationalism and the future of Western freedom.
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In Defense of Our National and Religious Traditions
By Yoram HazonyI am grateful to R.R. Reno , Walter Russell Mead , and Peter Berkowitz for their careful comments on my essay, “ Nationalism and the Future of Western Freedom .” Here I offer some thoughts relatin...
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Nationalism and the Future of Western Freedom
By Yoram HazonyA conflict is brewing over the shape of the international order. It centers around an idea—a biblical idea—long thought discredited by political elites.
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Why the Bible, Contra Leo Strauss, Is Part of the Western Philosophical Tradition
The first universal morality.
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The Book of Esther’s Lesson about Politics, War, and Morality
Mordecai the Machiavellian.
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Modernity, Religion, Morality—and the Future of the West
The West forgets the biblical tradition at its own peril.
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No, the Vatican Hasn’t Rejected Attempts to Convert Jews, But Its Recent Document Does Break New Ground
How should Jews react to it?
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Why the U.S. And Israel Should Back the Creation of an Autonomous Druze Region
To serve as a forward defensive line for Jordan, Israel, and the West.
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Are Revelation and Reason Co-extensive?
A common, but false, dichotomy.
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What Are Jewish Conservatives Trying to Conserve?
By Yoram HazonyI applaud Eric Cohen’s statement of Jewish conservative belief, as well as his suggestion that the time has come for a “more or less well-defined movement” to give conservative political tendencies wi...
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Israel’s Jewish Character Makes It More, Not Less, Democratic
And the argument otherwise is based on a false misunderstanding.
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Isaiah Berlin, the Enlightenment, and What the Jews Can Teach the World
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Why the “Jewish State” Law Matters
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Terror Pop
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Closing the Jewish Mind
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Toward a New Jewish Philosophy
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