This book is the first to link the modern appreciation for democratic freedom directly to Jewish political thought in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
Gregory B. Kaplan is Professor of Spanish and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, USA.
Introduction: From Democracy to Democratic Zionism
1 Flawed Democracy, the Aristotelian Agricultural Democracy and the Hebrew Republic
2 The Medieval Divine-Right Monarchy, an Anti-Hebrew Republic
3 The Divine-Right Spanish Monarchy and the Conversos
4 The Hebrew Republic as an Alternative to Habsburg Rule and the Emergence of Morteira, Barrios and Spinoza
5 The Hebrew Republic and Democratic Zionism in the Writings of Morteira
6 Morteira, Hobbes and the Democratic Zionism of Spinoza and Barrios
7 Democratic Zionism and Twenty-First Century Zionism
Appendix: Treatise on the Truth of the Law of Moses, Chapters One, Two, Ten and Eleven (Translation into English by Gregory B. Kaplan)