Why Mordecai Did Not Bow

Every two or three weeks, Susannah and I will post on our free Substack, The Anchored Argosy. Within our posts, we give an update on our news, share some photos, and provide links to recent things we have produced. In each post, I will also usually share some thoughts on a subject that has been on my mind over the period. A while back, I wrote a reflection on the question of why Mordecai did not bow to Haman in the book of Esther. I have now recorded an audio form of the reflection which is available on YouTube and on my podcast.

Yoram Hazony on Scripture as Political Philosophy

Yoram Hazony is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He is the author of The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, God and Politics in Esther, The Virtue of Nationalism, and, more recently, Conservatism: A Rediscovery. He joins me for a discussion of the Bible as a political text.

Within the conversation, I also mention Joshua Berman’s Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, Eric Nelson’s The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes’s, The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel, and Yechiel Leiter’s John Locke’s Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible.

Conservatism (with Dr Yoram Hazony)

Derek, Matt, and I are joined by Dr Yoram Hazony for a spirited discussion of his new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery.

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Transcript for Yoram Hazony, ‘The Virtue of Nationalism’

This transcription of my summary and review of Yoram Hazony’s book The Virtue of Nationalism was transcribed by Lorraine O’Neal. If you would be interested in her transcription services—for sermons, lectures, talks, or something else—you can contact her here.

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Some of the quotations from this book, as they are transcribed from speech, may have minor inaccuracies in punctuation.

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