Political Hebraism: Judaic Sources in Early Modern Political Thought Editors: Gordon Schochet, Fania Oz-Zalzberger, Meirav Jones Between the 16th and 18th centuries, European political philosophy felt intimately at home with the Hebrew Bible, enjoyed some familiarity with later Jewish texts and exegeses, and accommodated a small number of Jews within its political discourse. The period was characterized by a search for Hebraica Veritas, a view of De Republica Hebraeorum as the idealized polity, and biblical and Jewish ideas permeating the political imagination through art, literature, and legal codes. The conference that produced this volume was the first international scholarly effort to explore the scope and significance o0f early modern political Hebraism: the use of Hebrew and Jewish sources for politics and political thought at the funding moment of the modern West. Aptly set in Jerusalem, the conference gathered sixty scholars and advanced students form around the world who had been independently exploring aspects of the topics at hand and who were for the most part unaware of one another's work. Contributions came from a variety of fields, ranging from political science, theology, literature, history, Jewish thought, and law. Following the conference, a peer-reviewed quarterly was launched, Hebraic Political Studies, which would explore Jewish political thought and the impact of Hebraic sources on political thought of the West.