Yoram Hazony opens his new book, “The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture” (Cambridge University Press: $24.99), with a challenging question: “Is there something crucial missing in our understanding of what the Hebrew Bible is all about?” His answers are both surprising and illuminating, but they are also audacious because they propose a wholly new way of understanding what the Bible says and means.
Hazony, a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and president of its Institute for Advanced Studies, brings to his book a background in politics and philosophy rather than Bible study; significantly, he completed a degree in Asian studies at Princeton and earned his doctorate in political theory at Rutgers, and he is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, the New Republic, Commentary and Ha’aretz.
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