The Hebrew Bible in Political Perspective

~ Available also as an explicitly interfaith convening ~
The Book of Samuel is—if you take Spinoza at his word—a treatise on the dangers of concentrating power in the hands of one man, and—if one absolutely must concentrate power in a central authority—a call to its readers to demand that even the supreme leader never be placed above the law as ultimate arbiter of what is fair and just. Many regard the book of Samuel as a founding document of republican government! Come away with skills for reading the Hebrew Bible you never thought you’d have. As a rendering of the particular features of the Hebrew text into English, the translations of Robert Alter and Everett Fox are unrivaled.