RT Article
T1 "Every State Becomes a Theocracy": Hermann Cohen on the Israelites under Divine Rule
JF Jewish studies quarterly
VO 25
IS 2
SP 181
OP 199
A1 Pollock, Benjamin 1971-
LA English
PB Mohr Siebeck
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1583728589
AB According to Hermann Cohen, the Jewish people serves the goal of a united humanity under the auspices of the one God, through its diasporic existence. If this is so, what meaning does he attach to the theocratic governance of ancient Israel, and what role does he assign to that particularcase of theocracy, within his broader vision of the unification of humanity under monotheism? For Cohen theocracy is a linchpin, linking the Israelite state - and perhaps any particular state - both backwards to the unified origins of humanity in a covenant with the providentialCreator, first formulated in the Noahide laws, and forward to the messianic Kingdom of God, a realm of morality in which humanity attains a unity analogous to the unity of God.
K1 ISRAELITE THEOCRACY
K1 Noahide Laws
K1 Sittlichkeit
K1 Theocracy
K1 UNIFICATION OF HUMANITY
DO 10.1628/jsq-2018-0008