‘Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof!’:Reading Leviticus 25:10 Through the Centuries
| Autor: | Jonathan Stökl |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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History
Sociology and Political Science Western Christianity Judaism media_common.quotation_subject 06 humanities and the arts Ancient history 0603 philosophy ethics and religion religion.religion religion 060104 history Philosophy Reading (process) 060302 philosophy 0601 history and archaeology Hebrew Bible Order (virtue) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Stökl, J 2018, ' ‘Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof!’ : Reading Leviticus 25:10 Through the Centuries ', History of European Ideas, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 685-701 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2018.1513249 |
| Popis: | This paper follows the text of Leviticus 25:10 in the Hebrew Bible and in selected works of the exegetical tradition of both Rabbinic Judaism and Western Christianity, in order to provide a lens through which to assess the use of a biblical text which was instrumental during the early modern period in formulating ideas about the republic and from thence to the modern liberal state. The main argument of the paper is that over time the meaning of the text shifted depending on the context in which it was read, ranging from the socio-economic to the salvific to the political. Further, all the authors cited here approached the text as an authoritative normative text, and did not look at the text as a textual artefact. While the move to re-introduce Jewish Sources into the debate in political theory is welcomed, it is argued that the results would be improved by balanced reading strategies and interaction with critical academic biblical scholarship. |
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