These essays propose "a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political" ( Jewish Book World ).Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal political order. Th...

In a unique world of seven nations, beautifully united by a common language but jealously separated by ideological rivalries, a powerful emperor uses diplomacy to overturn an age-old cultural legislation that bars inter-state marriage, to pave the way for his daughter to marry a handsome poor young man from an enemy state.While the scrapping of the cultural taboo is being resisted with intense protestations throughout the region, especially in Voberia, the emperor's own kingdom, a ...