# Hebrew republic

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The **Hebrew Republic**, also “*De Republica Hebraeorum*”, and also “*Respublica Hebraeorum*”, is an early modern concept in political theory in which Christian scholars regarded the [Hebrew Bible](/source/Hebrew_Bible) as a political constitution framing a perfect and [republican](/source/Republic) government designed by God for the children of Israel.[1][2][3]

In 1582, [Carlo Sigonio](/source/Carlo_Sigonio) published a text entitled *De Republica Hebraeorum*. It used the format of the *De repubblica Athenensium* manual. The question of the political structure in ancient Israel had already been addressed before, but Sigonio was the first to adopt a systematic approach. However, he did not know [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language) and so used the translation of the [Septuagint](/source/Septuagint), giving rise to not a few problems.[4]

Among the most notable works in the genre are “*De Republica Hebraeorum*” by [Petrus Cunaeus](/source/Petrus_Cunaeus) [5][6] and [Eric Nelson's](/source/Eric_M._Nelson) "The Hebrew Republic".[7] A Catholic contributor to the *respublica Hebraeorum* genre was the [Jesuit](/source/Jesuit) [Giovanni Stefano Menochio](/source/Giovanni_Stefano_Menochio), who published his own *De republica Hebraeorum* in 1648.[8]

## References

1. ["Subjects and Series | Harvard University Press"](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/NELHEB.html)

1. Tuck, Richard, Philosophy and government, 1572-1651, Cambridge, 1993, p. 167

1. Lea Campos Boralevi, Classical Foundational Myths of European Republicanism: The Jewish Commonwealth, in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 258

1. Fausto Parente (2010). "Il "De Republica Hebraeorum" di Carlo Sigonio". *Rivista di Storia della Filosofia*. **65** (3): 423–459. [JSTOR 44025857](https://www.jstor.org/stable/44025857)

1. Tuck, Richard, Philosophy and government, 1572-1651, Cambridge, 1993, p. 167

1. Lea Campos Boralevi, Classical Foundational Myths of European Republicanism: The Jewish Commonwealth, in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, Cambridge University Press, 2002 , p. 258

1. Eric Nelson, [“The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought”](http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Hebrew-republic.php) (Harvard University Press, 2010)

1. Eric Nelson (2010). [*The Hebrew Republic*](https://books.google.com/books?id=26Untqk_pSgC&pg=PA150). [Harvard University Press](/source/Harvard_University_Press). p. 150. ISBN 9780674050587.

## Further reading

- Fania Oz-Salzberger (2002). ["The Jewish Roots of Western Freedom"](https://web.archive.org/web/20040910141043/http://www.jafi.org.il/education/azure/13/13-fania.html). *[Azure](/source/Azure_(magazine))*. **13**: 88–132. Archived from [the original](http://www.jafi.org.il/education/azure/13/13-fania.html) on 2004-09-10.
- Lea Campos Boralevi, *Classical Foundational Myths of European Republicanism: The Jewish Commonwealth*, in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, *Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage*, [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 2002, p. 258.
- François Laplanche (2008). ["Christian Erudition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and the Hebrew State"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190226184056/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/82b4/1793bfcda8fd4134bc07fba19ada9bb2cc06.pdf). *[Hebraic Political Studies](/source/Hebraic_Political_Studies)*. **3** (1): 6–7, 10, 12, 16–18. [S2CID 26623650](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:26623650). Archived from [the original](http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/82b4/1793bfcda8fd4134bc07fba19ada9bb2cc06.pdf) on 2019-02-26.

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