LEADER 04306nam 22006014a 450 001 9910824286203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-8004-8 010 $a0-585-45778-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804780049 035 $a(CKB)111087027878796 035 $a(OCoLC)614734731 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10040388 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223850 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223850 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206780 035 $a(PQKB)10103711 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037418 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037418 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10040388 035 $a(OCoLC)923699648 035 $a(DE-B1597)582628 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804780049 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027878796 100 $a20010321d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitics and the limits of law $esecularizing the political in medieval Jewish thought /$fMenachem Lorberbaum 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 225 1 $aContraversions : Jews and other differences 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8047-4074-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-208) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tINTRODUCTION: DIVINE LAW AND SECULAR POLITICS --$tPART 1: MAIMONIDES --$t1. THE NATURAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS --$t2. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF LAW --$t3. THE CODE ON THE PRIORITY OF POLITICS --$t4. CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS AND MESSIANIC RESOLUTION --$tPART 2: GERONDI --$t5. THE KAHAL AS A POLITY --$t6. THE AUTONOMY OF POLITICS --$tCONCLUSION: SECULARIZING POLITICS --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tNAME INDEX --$tGENERAL INDEX 330 $aThis book explores the emergence of the fundamental political concepts of medieval Jewish thought, arguing that alongside the well known theocratic elements of the Bible there exists a vital tradition that conceives of politics as a necessary and legitimate domain of worldly activity that preceded religious law in the ordering of society. Since the Enlightenment, the separation of religion and state has been a central theme in Western political history and thought, a separation that upholds the freedom of conscience of the individual. In medieval political thought, however, the doctrine of the separation of religion and state played a much different role. On the one hand, it served to maintain the integrity of religious law versus the monarch, whether canon law, Islamic law, or Jewish law. On the other hand, it upheld the autonomy of the monarch and the autonomy of human political agency against theocratic claims of divine sovereignty and clerical authority. Postulating the realm of secular politics leads the author to construct a theory of the precedence of politics over religious law in the organization of social life. He argues that the attempts of medieval philosophers to understand religion and the polity provide new perspectives on the viability of an accommodation between revelation and legislation, the holy and the profane, the divine and the temporal. The book shows that in spite of the long exile of the Jewish people, there is, unquestionably, a tradition of Jewish political discourse based on the canonical sources of Jewish law. In addition to providing a fresh analysis of Maimonides, it analyzes works of Nahmanides, Solomon ibn Adret, and Nissim Gerondi that are largely unknown to the English-speaking reader. Finally, it suggests that the historical corpus of Jewish political writing remains vital today, with much to contribute to the ongoing debates over church-state relations and theocratic societies. 410 0$aContraversions (Stanford, Calif.) 606 $aJudaism and politics$xHistory$yTo 1500 615 0$aJudaism and politics$xHistory 676 $a296.3/82/0902 700 $aLorberbaum$b Menachem$f1958-$01595747 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824286203321 996 $aPolitics and the limits of law$93929811 997 $aUNINA