Download PDF by Graham Hammill: The Mosaic Constitution: Political Theology and Imagination

By Graham Hammill

It is a typical trust that scripture has no position in glossy, secular politics. Graham Hammill demanding situations this concept in The Mosaic Constitution, arguing that Moses’s structure of Israel, which created humans sure by means of the guideline of legislation, was once relevant to early sleek writings approximately executive and state.

Hammill exhibits how political writers from Machiavelli to Spinoza drew on Mosaic narrative to visualize constitutional types of executive. while, literary writers like Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, and John Milton grew to become to Hebrew scripture to probe such primary divisions as these among population and multitude, citizenship and race, and obedience and person selection. As those writers used biblical narrative to fuse politics with the artistic assets of language, Mosaic narrative additionally gave them a method for exploring divine authority as a made of literary mind's eye. the 1st ebook to put Hebrew scripture on the leading edge of seventeenth-century literary and political innovation, The Mosaic Constitution bargains a clean point of view on political theology and the kin among literary illustration and the founding of political communities.

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