Le istituzioni mosaiche nella Repubblica degli Ebrei di Joseph Salvador

This article aims to investigate the interest in the Jewish political example expressed in the Histoire des institutions de Moïse et du peuple hébreu by the eclectic French thinker Joseph Salvador. Salvador’s unique declination of the respublica hebraeorum represents a novelty in the context of treatises that dealt with biblical polity as political exemplum. While in the Seventeenth Century the first Christian “Jewish Studies” used the model mainly for legitimizing political and constitutional visions, Salvador instead presents an institutional system based on universal principles sublimated into a centripetal political force, the usefulness of which is to amend the world and to fulfill the Jewish mission to human progress.