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Title Law, politics, and morality in Judaism / edited and with a preface by Michael Walzer
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages)
Series Ethikon series in comparative ethics
Ethikon series in comparative ethics.
Contents 1. Obligation : a Jewish jurisprudence of the social order / Robert M. Cover -- 2. Judaism and civil society / Suzanne Last Stone -- 3. Civil society and government / Noam J. Zohar -- 4. Autonomy and modernity / David Biale -- 5. Land and people / David Novak -- 6. Contested boundaries : visions of a shared world / Noam J. Zohar -- 7. Diversity, tolerance, and sovereignty / Menachem Fisch -- 8. Responses to modernity / Adam B. Seligman -- 9. Judaism and cosmopolitanism / David Novak -- 10. Commanded and permitted wars / Michael Walzer -- 11. Prohibited wars / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 12. Judaism and the obligation to die for the state / Geoffrey B. Levy
Summary Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be today to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular democratic states? Can a culture of exile be adapted to help Jews find ways of being at home politically today? These questions are central in Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism, a collection of essays by contemporary political theorists, philosophers, and lawyers. --From publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jewish law -- Moral and ethical aspects
Public law (Jewish law)
Judaism and state.
Law -- Israel -- Jewish influences.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Theology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Jewish law -- Moral and ethical aspects
Judaism and state
Law -- Jewish influences
Public law (Jewish law)
Jüdisches Recht
Öffentliches Recht
Judentum
Joods recht.
Politiek.
Ethiek.
Israel
Israel
Form Electronic book
Author Walzer, Michael.
ISBN 9781400827206
1400827205
1282129473
9781282129474
9786612129476
6612129476