Covenant Polity In Biblical Israel

Download or read book Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, and the political arrangements that flow from it, Among the topics covered are covenant as a political concept, the Bible as a political commentary, the post-biblical tradition, medieval covenant theory, and Jewish political culture.