Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory

by David Novak

Book Overview

Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought. David Novak pursues these aims by presenting a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691144370
• ISBN13: 9780691144375
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"