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DESCRIPTION:The covenanting episodes at Sinai in Hebrew Bible have served a
 s a model for political life\, particularly in its translation to social c
 ontract\, as we see in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and Baruch Spinoza’s Theo
 logical-Political Treatise. Returning to covenant in context of the Jewish
  textual canon shows covenant as a model not of command-obedience authorit
 y\, but of an alternative conception in which authority circulates and avo
 ids a final arbiter. As such\, we can reevaluate not just classical readin
 gs of Hobbes and Spinoza but also\, think critically about covenant’s insc
 ription into certain notions of political theology\, especially as it emer
 ged in Weimar Germany. Comparing the early-modern engagements with covenan
 t with a reading of Abraham Joshua Heschel as a theorist of covenant in Go
 d in Search of Man\, we can see how covenant is a way to think across enga
 gements with and critiques of political theology\, and question whether it
  is possible to have a Jewish political theology.\n\nSarah B.K. Greenberg 
 is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University\, where she teaches 
 courses on religion and politics\, social and political thought\, and meth
 ods for historical and theoretical research. She earned her Ph.D. in Gover
 nment (Political Thought) from Cornell in 2024. Prior to graduate school\,
  Sarah worked as a policy advocate in Washington\, D.C.\, where she specia
 lized in church-state law.\n\nLocation: Leacock 738\n\nRSVP required: http
 s://forms.office.com/r/YTgdHnaH3i\n
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SUMMARY:Political Theologies of Covenant: Reading Hobbes and Spinoza with a
 nd against Heschel - Sarah B.K. Greenberg\, PhD (Harvard)
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 nant-reading-hobbes-and-spinoza-and-against-heschel-sarah-bk-greenberg-phd
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