volume 2, number 3

Summer 2007

David C. Flatto
It’s Good to Be King: The Monarch’s Role in the Mishna’s Political and Legal System
Anna Maria Strumia
Ancient Republics in Seventeenth-Century England and the Origins of the Modern Dichotomy Between Authority and Power
Michael S. Kochin
Living with the Bible: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Reads Judges 19-21
Shmuel Sandler
Toward a Theory of World Jewish Politics and Jewish Foreign Policy
Reviewed by Anne Oravetz Albert, University of Pennsylvania
Spinoza and Republicanism
Reviewed by Patrick Blond, The Shalem Center
Spinoza’s Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and Reason