Focus on Israel
with Laurie Cardoza-Moore
The Hebrew Republic
Friday, May 1, 2026
Most contend that the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from the exclusion of religion. In the groundbreaking book, The Hebrew Republic, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that motivated this radical transformation. Scholar and author Rabbi Ken Spiro talks about the ramifications of Nelson’s book.
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