Struggling for Justice Among Nations: A.J. Coates and The Ethics of War
Monument to American soldiers who fell at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France June 6, 1944 (Kirk Fisher/Shutterstock.com).Politics, Law, and the Hebrew Bible
The understanding and practice of law and politics in the Hebrew Bible: How long a shadow did God cast? In the introduction to In God’s Shadow: The Politics of the Hebrew Bible, Michael Walzer rightly observes that the Hebrew Bible is about “a people who have leaders and laws, who experience bitter internal conflicts and wars with other nations, who disagree about authority and policy, who listen to public criticism of their government and society” (p. xi). He continues by alerting the reader of his intention to investigate “a set of questions [that] arise: How much room for politics can there…
