John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from

Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defin

Christian Hebraism in early modern Europe has traditionally been interpreted as the pursuit of a few exceptional scholars, but in the sixteenth century it becam