Walking on a volcano? Religion and politics in Israel: the use of the biblical text as an argumentative tool
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The Bible plays a central role in Israel. This essay studies the evolution of the biblical references and its instrumental use in the Israeli nation building process, both in the pre-estate period and in the first decades of the State. The tensions, both ideological and practical, derived from the secular use of a religious/sacred text, transcend the case of Israel and the Bible. They are related to the broad political and religious debates which are in the origin of the modern nation-states and the concept of national sovereignty and parliamentary democracy.
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