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Why Ancient Israel Was Not a Modern Nation

And why this question keeps coming up.

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Apr 27, 2023
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As part of our launch on Substack, we’re thrilled to share this fascinating guest essay from the political theorist David Polansky. This piece, like everything we publish, aims to explore the sources of our deepest differences—and the example of Israel, past and present, illustrates these tensions powerfully. In case you missed them, earlier this week, …

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I'm a part-time political theorist and writer with interests in nationalism, state-formation, political conflict, and religion, but also music, literature, film, etc.
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