ARTH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Wield, Puritans, Vibraphone
12 Aug 2018
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Many books in the tanakh are political: explaining the different ways in which the jews have their own state: exile: loss of jewish sovereignty in the land of israel. Jews have not engaged in politics in the broader sense of the wider society until recently: internal. Jewish communities were autonomous and internally political; no political interaction outside of the community unless there was a need to make a treaty or agreement or something. Modern israeli state: there are religious parties, parliament = knesset (120 members). Joint list: arab-based party; 13 seats: zionist union: 24 seats; centrist-leftist. Main opposition party to likud: 3 of the 5 smaller parties are religious ones (21 of the 120 seats held by orthodox parties): On paper, jews are told by their tradition to be involved in the broader society (the ic document on. Mycourses has examples of passages from the tanakh and modern papers provided by professor caplan for more textual evidence)
