Spinoza et l’autorité d’un modèle : l’état des hébreux

Abstract

In the 16th and 17th centuries the Hebrew State was not only a historical or philological object. The fact that the mosaical constitution should have directly originated from a positive divine Revelation could endow it with an exemplary value for the building of any legitimate State and the establishment of relationships between Church and State. Therefore the works dealing with such a question were always bound to be highly controversial.