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Tables of Contents for Covenant & Polity in Biblical Israel
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Introduction
1
18
Part I---The Idea
Covenant as a Political Concept
19
16
Covenant and the Origins of Political Society
35
18
Biblical Origins
53
22
The Bible and Political Life in Covenant
75
22
Part II---Torah: Covenantal Teaching
Bereshith: The Covenants of Creation
97
26
Abraham and His Children: Migration and Covenant
123
18
Federal versus Natural Man
141
20
Freedom and Covenant: Exodus, Sinai, and Sefer Habrit
161
14
The Mosaic Polity: What Else Happened at Sinai?
175
18
From Covenant to Constitution: Deuteronomy
193
34
Part III---The Classic Biblical Utopia
Joshua: God's Federal Republic
227
18
Fostering Civic Virtue
245
18
Joshua's Farewell Addresses
263
14
Judges: The Reality?
277
18
Part IV---The Alternate Model
Covenant and Kingdom: Dealing with Fundamental
295
24
The Institutionalized Federal Monarchy
319
18
Covenant as Judgment, Law, and Government
337
12
Covenant Applied: Israeli Political Organization
349
18
Part V---The Postbiblical Tradition
Talmudic Constitutionalism
367
18
Medieval Covenant Theory
385
16
Covenant and Polity in the Premodern Jewish
401
20
The Covenant Tradition in Modernity
421
16
The Covenant Idea and the Jewish Political Tradition: A Summary Statement
437
24
Index
461