The Mosaic Constitution : Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton - Graham Hammill

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The Mosaic Constitution

Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton

By: Graham Hammill

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Hardcover | 24 May 2012 | Edition Number 1

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It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in The Mosaic Constitution, arguing that Mosesâs constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central to early modern writings about government and state.

Hammill shows how political writers from Machiavelli to Spinoza drew on Mosaic narrative to imagine constitutional forms of government. At the same time, literary writers like Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, and John Milton turned to Hebrew scripture to probe such fundamental divisions as those between populace and multitude, citizenship and race, and obedience and individual choice. As these writers used biblical narrative to fuse politics with the creative resources of language, Mosaic narrative also gave them a means for exploring divine authority as a product of literary imagination. The first book to place Hebrew scripture at the cutting edge of seventeenth-century literary and political innovation, The Mosaic Constitution offers a fresh perspective on political theology and the relations between literary representation and the founding of political communities.

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"The Mosaic Constitution is an extraordinary work of scholarship - remarkable in its depth and range, remarkable in its implications for the field. The scale and texture of the historical scholarship show the kind of period fluency and scholarly gravitas that will place Graham Hammill squarely in the ranks of the most accomplished of contemporary analysts of the early modern era." (Christopher Pye, Williams College)"

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Moses and Political Theology
Machiavelli and Hebrew Scripture	p. 31
Spinoza, and the Theological Imaginary	p. 67
The Mosaic Constitution in England-Sovereignty, Government, Literature, 1590-1630
Marlowe and the Counter-Reformation	p. 103
Drayton and the Plague	p. 138
Political Making, Literary Making, 1651-1671
Marvell's Mosaic Moment	p. 173
Harrington's Poetics of Government	p. 208
Paradise Regained and the Limits of Toleration	p. 243
Notes	p. 285
Index	p. 321
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