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Primary Sources: Early Modern Political Hebraism 1580 – 1780
Althusius, Johannes
Politica Methodice
Digesta (1603).
Further Latin editions:
Third edition (revised):
1614.
Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1932.
Aalen, Germany: Scientia
Verlag, 1981.
English
editions:
The Politics of
Johannes Althusius (Abridged). Trans.
Frederick Smith Carney. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964. Available at http://www.constitution.org/alth/alth.htm.
Reprint of Carney
translation. Foreward by Daniel J.
Elazar. Indianapolis: Liberty
Fund, 1995.
Basnage, Jacques
Histoire des Juifs
depuis Jésus-Christ (Rotterdam, 1706).
English
editions:
Trans. By Thomas Taylor.
London: T. Bever and B. Lintot, 1708.
Bertram, Bonaventure Cornelius
De Politica Iudaica (1574).
Bodin, Jean
Colloquium
Hepataplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis (Kiel, 1603, Manuscript).
Latin editions:
Edited by L. Noack. Schwerin,
Germany, 1857.
Geneva: Droz, 1984.
English
editions:
The Colloquium of the
Seven About Secrets of the Sublime.
Trans. Marion L.D. Kuntz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Methodus ad facilem
historiarum cognitionem (Paris,
1566).
Latin editions:
Paris: Société d'édition "Les
Belles lettres," 1941.
English
editions:
Method for the easy
comprehension of History. Trans.
Beatrice Reynolds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. Reprint New York: Hippocrene Books,
1966.
Les Six livres de la
République (Paris: Du Puys, 1576).
French editions:
1577, 1578, 1579, 1580,
1582, 1583, 1587, 1588, 1593, 1594, 1599, 1600, 1610, 1612, 1629, 1961, 1986.
Les six livres de la
République: avec l'Apologie de R. Herpin Aalen, Germany: Scientia Aalen, 1961.
Edited by Christiane Frémont, Marie-Dominique
Couzinet, Henri Rochais. Paris:
Fayard, Corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue française, 1988 (6 volumes).
Latin
editions:
1586, 1591, 1594, 1598,
1603, 1609, 1619, 1622, 1624, 1641.
English
editions:
The Six Bookes of a
Commonweale, Written by I. Bodin a famous Lawyer, and a man of great Experience
in matter of State, based on French
and Latin editions. London: Impensis G. Bishop, 1606.
Reproduction
of original English Edition above
The six books of a commonweale: a
facsimile reprint of the English translation of 1606, corrected and
supplemented in the light of a new comparison with the French and Latin texts. Edited
with an introduction by Kenneth Douglas McRae. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962.
Available at http://www.constitution.org/bodin/bodin_.htm
Six
Books of the Commonwealth. Trans.
M.J. Tooley. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1955.
Universae naturae
theatrum, in quo rerum omnium effectrices causae et fines quinque libris
discutiuntur (Lyon: Jacobum Roussin,
1596).
English
editions:
Bodin's Humanistic
Legal System and Rejection of Medieval Political Theology. Translation of extracts. A.L. Fell. Westport, Conn.: Praeger
Publishers, 1991.
Botero, Giovanni
Ragione di Stato (Venice, 1589).
Italian
editions:
Bologna: A. Forni,
1990.
English
editions:
The Reason of State. Trans.
P.J. and D.P Waley, with an introduction by D.P. Waley; and The Greatness of
Cities, translated by Robert Peterson. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1956, (partial).
Brayne, John
The new earth, or,
The true Magna Carta of the past ages, and of the ages or world to come: called
The Jews commonweal (1653).
Bunny, Edmund
The scepter of Judah:
or, what manner of government it was, that unto the common-wealth or Church of
Israel was by the law of God appointed
(1584).
Celsius, Olavus
De statu Judaeorum
recedente sceptro (Upsala, 1719).
Conring, Herman (praes.); Martin Muller (resp.)
De politia sive
republica hebraeorum exercitation
(Dissertation. Helmstadt, 1648).
Cradock, Samuel
The history of the
Old Testament methodiz'd according to the order and series of time wherein the
several things therein mentioned were transacted (1683).
Cunaeus, Petrus
De Republica Hebræorum (1617).
Latin
editions:
Leiden, 1631.
Amsterdam, 1666.
Leipzig, 1696.
Leiden, 1703 with
annotation by Johann Nicolai.
English
editions:
Petrus Cuneaus, Of the Commonwealth of the Hebrews.
Trans. Clement Barksdale. London, 1653 (Book 1 only).
Reprint Florence: Centro Editoriale Toscano, 1996 (Book 1 only). Reprint of 1617 Latin text and 1653 English Text, with introduction in Italian by Lea Campos Boralevi.
Dannhauer, Johann Conrad
Politica Biblica (Venice: Ugolinus Thesaurus 24, 1761).
De Barrios, Daniel Levi
Triumpho del govierno
popular y de la Antiguedad Holandesa
(Amsterdam, 1683 – 84).
De Boyer, JeanBaptiste, Marquis d'Argens
Lettres Juives, ou
correspondence philosophique, historique, et critique, entre un Juif voyageur à Paris & ses
correspondans en divers endroits (The
Hague, 1736-7).
English
editions:
The Jewish Spy: Being a Philosophical, Historical and Critical Correspondence, by Letters Which Lately Pass'd Between Certain Jews in Turkey, Italy, France, &c. Translated from the Originals into French by the Marquis d'Argens; and now done into English, 1739.
De Saumaise, Claude (Salmasius)
Defensio Regio pro
Carolo I (1649).
De Vattel, Emmerich
Droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle appliqués à la conduite et aux
affaires des nations et des souverains
(London: Neufchatel, 1758).
French
editions:
Amsterdam: Van
Harrevelt, 1775.
Paris: Chez Janet et
Cotelle, 1820.
Paris: M. de Hoffmans,
1839.
English
editions:
London: 1797. Also available at: http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/vattel/.
Trans. by Joseph Chitty. London: 1833.
The Law of Nations:
Or Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of
Nations and Sovereigns. Using trans.
by Joseph Chitty. Philadelphia: T.
and J.W. Johnson & Co., 1852; reprint with corrections, 1883. Also
available at: http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel.htm.
Forthcoming: The Law
of Nations in the series Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics. Ed. by T.J. Hochstrasser. Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund, 2007.
Ebreo, Leone (Yehuda Abravanel)
Dialoghi d'amore (1501 –
02, or 1511 – 12).
Italian
editions:
1st published
edition: 1535.
Ed. by Santino
Caramella. Bari, Italy: Laterza e Figli, 1929.
English
editions:
The Philosophy of Love. Trans. by F. Freideberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes, with an introduction by Cecil Roth. London: Soncino Press, 1937.
French
editions:
Dialogues d'amour. Trans. attributed to Pontus de Tyard. Edited by T.
Anthony Perry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.
Portuguese
editions:
Dialogos de amor. Trans. by Giacinto Manuppella. Lisbon: Instituto Nacional de
Investigacao Cientifica, 1983.
Eenberg, Johann (praes.); Dan Dorphstedt (resp.)
Dissertation. de
varia forma regiminis in populo Judaico (Upsala, 1708).
Filmer, Sir Robert
An advertisement to the jury-men of England, touching witches. Together with a difference
between an English and Hebrew witch. (London, 1653).
Finetti, Jannis Francisi Finetti
De principiis juris
naturae et gentium adversus (Venice,
1764).
Foxe, John
Acts and Monuments (1563).
Current
editions:
New York: AMS Press,
1965.
Genebrard, Gilbert
Eisagoge (Paris, 1559 or 1563).
Gregoire, Pierre
Praeludia optimi
juresconsulti probique magistrates (Toulouse,
1583).
Grotius, Hugo
Briefwisseling van Hugo Grotius. Ed. by P.C. Molhuysen et al. The Hague: Nijhoff,
1928–2001.
Letters
are also available at: http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BrievenVanHugoDeGroot1594-1645.
De Republica
Emendanda (1601).
De Juri Belli ac
Pacis Libri Tres (Paris: Buon,
1625).
Latin
editions:
Reprinted and translated
many times, special notice give to Jean Barbeyrac's edition, 1735.
English
editions:
Anonymous
translation of Barbeyrac edition. London: Innys et al., 1738.
On the Law of
War and Peace.
Cambridge: John W. Parker, 1853.
The Rights of War and
Peace including the Law of Nature and of Nations. Trans.,
with notes and illustrations from
political and legal writers, by A.C. Campbell, A.M., with an Introduction by
David J. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State of the United States. New York and
London: M. Walter Dunne, 1901.
Available at: http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Grotius0110/LawOfWarPeace/0138_Bk.html.
Trans.
by Frank W. Kelsey et al. as Vol. 2 of The Classics of International Law, ed. by James Brown Scott. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1925.
Printed with a facsimile of the 1646 edition.
Prolegomena to the
Law of War and Peace. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975.
Reprint
Classics of International Law edition by the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. Buffalo,
New York: William S. Hein, 1995.
Reprint of Campbell
edition. Kitchener, Ontario: Batoche Books, 2001. Available at: http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/het/grotius/Law2.pdf.
Also available at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/8098/.
Harrington, James
The Commonwealth of
Oceana (London, 1656).
Other
editions:
The Oceana and other
works. With an account of his life by John Toland. London: T. Beckett, T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771.
Ed. by J.G.A. Pocock, in
the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1992.
Available at: http://www.constitution.org/jh/oceana.htm.
The Art of Lawgiving
in III Books (London, 1659).
Other
editions:
The Oceana and other
works. With an account of his life by John Toland. London: T. Beckett, T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771.
1771 edition available
in facsimile at: http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Book.php?recordID=0492.
Herbert, Edward
De Religione
Gentilium (1663).
De Veritate (Paris, 1624).
Latin
editions:
3rd ed.:
London, 1645, included three additions, De Causis Errorum, Religio Laici, and
an Appendix ad Sacerdotes.
Hildericus, Edv.
Oratio de politia et
hierarchia populi iudaici (Wittenberg,
1570).
Hobbes, Thomas
Leviathan (London,
1651).
Multiple
English editions, including:
Edwin Curley, ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing,
1994.
Available at many sites
online including:
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html.
Hooker, Richard
Of the Laws of
Ecclesiastical Polity (1593).
Current
editions:
Ed. by A.S. McGrade, in
the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989.
Houtuyn, Adrian
Monarchia Hebraeorum,
quae est de imperio monarchico in populum Hebraeum probatio ab Abrahamo ad
dispersam gentem (Leiden, 1685).
Imbonato, Carolo Joseph
Biblotheca
Latino-Hebraica (The Latin-Hebrew Library) (Rome, 1694).
Junius, Franciscus (Francis du Jon) the elder
De politiae Mosis
observatione (1593).
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Le philosophie Juive
de la Cabale (Paris, 1851, from the
manuscript of 1701).
Réfutation inedited de
Spinosa par Leibnitz (Paris, 1854,
from an older manuscript).
English
editions:
A refutation recently
discovered of Spinoza by Leibnitz.
Trans. by Rev. O.F. Owen. London: T. Constable and Co., 1855.
Included in Philosophical
Works of Leibnitz. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2003, reprint of
1908.
Lewis, Thomas
Origins Hebraeae: The
Antiquities of the Hebrew Republic in four books (London, 1724, 4 volumes).
Other
editions:
Reprinted by Oxford in
1835.
Leydekker, Melchior
De republica
Hebraeorum libri XII (Amsterdam,
1704).
De vario Reipublicae
Hebraeorum statu, libri novem theologici, philologici, quibus de regno Israelis
et Judae (Amsterdam, 1710).
Lightfoot, John
The Works of Lightfoot (1684, edited in 2 vols., G. Bright and Strype)
Latin edition:
Opera Omnia (Rotterdam, 1686, 2 vols.)
More recent edition:
The whole works of the Rev. John Lightfoot : master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge ed. John Rogers Pitman. (London: J.F. Dove, 1822-1825 )
Lloyd, Lodowick
The stratagems of
Ierusalem vvith the martiall laves and militarie discipline, as well of the
Iewes, as of the Gentiles (1602).
Lowman, Moses
A Dissertation on the
Civil Government of the Hebrews (London,
1740).
A Rational of the
Ritual of Hebrew Worship (London,
1748).
Luzzatto, Simone
Socrate, overo
dell'humano sapere (Venice, 1651).
Menochio, Giovanni Stefano
De republica
Hebraeorum, libri octo (Paris, 1648).
Milton, John
Aeropagetaica (1644).
Current
edition:
Paris: Aubier, 1956.
Available at: http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/areopagitica.html.
Pro Populo Anglicano
defenso (1650).
Other
edition:
A defense of the
English People (1695).
Samson Agonistes (London, 1671).
Current
editions:
Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1992..
Available
at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Emilton/reading_room/samson/drama/index.shtml.
Pithou, Pierre
Mosaycarum et
Romanarum legem collatio et intergris Papiniani, Pauli, Ulpiani, Gaii,
Modestini, aliorumque venarum iuris autorum libris ante Iustiniani Imp.
Desumpta, Basilae per Thomam Guarinum (1574).
Pufendorf, Samuel
De Jurae Naturae et
Gentium (1672).
Latin
editions:
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998.
English
editions:
On the Law of Nature
and Nations (8 books), Ed.
Basil Kennett. Oxford: Lichfield,
1703. Available at: http://oll.libertyfund.org/Intros/Pufendorf.php.
Buffalo, N.Y.: William S.
Hein & Co., 1995 (In Latin, with English translation).
On the Law of Nation
and Nations: Eight Books. Clark,
N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 4th ed., 2005.
Raguellus, Franciscus
Leges politicae ex
Sacre iurisprudentiae fontibus houstae, collectaeque et ob commodiorem usum ad
formam Iustinianei codicis digestae, ac per titulos, edictique perpetui seriem
concinnatae. Quibus In gratium
lectoris adiecimus, Leges XII tabularum, etiam ipsas vetustissimas (Frankfort, 1577).
Reimer, Joachim Ludwig
Respublica Ebraeorum (Copenhagen, 1657).
San Felipe, Vicente Bacallar y Sanna
Monarchia Hebrea (Genoa, 1719).
Schikard, William
Mishpat Ha-Melek, Jus
Regium Hebraeorum, e Tenebris Rabbinicus erutum & luci donatum (Leipzig, 1674).
Selden, John
De Jure Naturali et Gentium juxta discplinam Ebraeorum libri septum (1640).
Latin
editions:
Strasbourg: sumptibus Societatis, 1665.
Argentorati: Sumptibus Joh. Andr. Endteri & Wolfgangi
junioris haeredum bibliop. Noribergensium, 1665.
Wittenberg: Apud
Godofredum Zimmermannum, 1712.
De Synedriis &
Praefecturis Juridicis Veterum
Hebraeorum (1650-53/55).
Latin
editions:
Amsterdam, Joh. a Someren, Henr. and Theod. Boom,
1679.
The Historie of
Tithes (London, 1618).
Current
editions:
Cambridge,
Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1969.
Norwood,
N.J.:Walter J. Johnson, 1995.
Uxor Ebraica (1646).
English
editions:
John Selden on
Jewish Marriage Law: The Uxor Hebraica. Trans. by Jonathan R. Ziskind.
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1991.
Sigonio, Carlo
De Republica
Hebraeorum Libri VII (Bologna, 1582).
Stephanus, H.
Iuris civilis fotne
set rivi, Iurisconsultorum veterum quidam loci, ex integris eorum voluminibus
ante iustiniani aetatem excepti (Basel,
1580).
Stephanus, Iaoc.
De iurisdictione
Iudaeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum, ecclesiasticorum, libri quator (Frankfurt, 1604).
Van den Vondel, Joost
Het Pascha (1612) available at: http://cf.hum.uva.nl/dsp/ljc/vondel/pascha/pascha.html.
Weems, John
An exposition of the
lavves of Moses (1632).
Wellwood, William
Juris divini
Judaeorum ac juris civilis Romanorum parallela (Leiden, 1594).
Wollaston, William
Religion of Nature
Delineated (London: 1st
ed. 1722; 2nd ed. 1724; 3rd ed. Samuel Palmer, 1726; 5th ed. James and
John Knapton, 1731; 8th ed. 1750).
Later
editions:
With
an introduction by Stanley Tweyman. Del Mar, N.Y.: 1974.
Whitefish,
Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2003. (8th ed. 1750)
Selections
available at: http://fair-use.org/william-wollaston/the-religion-of-nature-delineated/.
Zepper, Wilhelm
Legem Mosicarum
Forensium explanatio (Explanation of the Juridical Laws of Moses) (1614).
Anonymous
Collatio legume
Mosaicarum et Romanarum (1572).
Later
editions:
H.D.
Tjeenk Willink & zoon n.v., 1934.
Anonymous
Minutes of the
Westminster Assembly of the Divines
(eds. A.F. Mitchell and J. Struthers, 1874).
Later
editions:
Reprint, Edmonton,
Alberta: Stillwater Revival Books, 1991.
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Moses the Egyptian:
The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998). See especially chapter 3, "Before
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Berkowitz, Abraham
"John Selden and
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Berkowitz, David Sandler
John Selden's
Formative Years: Politics and Society in Early Seventeenth Century England (Washington, D.C.: Folger Books, 1988).
Biberman, Matthew
" Milton, Marriage, and a Woman's Right to Divorce," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 39:1 (Winter 1999), pp. 131-153.
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Boralevi, Lea Campos
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Hebrew and the Bible
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Hastings, Adrian
The Construction of
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The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2000).
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Hueglin, Thomas
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"The Jewish View of Natural Law" (Review of
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The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (New York: Free Press, 2003).
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