Solid, if unusually flighty for Walzer. ( )

Another reviewer has written an excellent, critical review of this book, from a (more or less) historian's perspective. But the book does have some excellent qualities, and it's worth mentioning them as well: it is extremely readable; it is enjoyable to think with; it makes reading Exodus (and the following books) even more fascinating. As a work of scholarship on Exodus, it is probably not all that great. As a work tracing the rhetoric and thought-forms of revolutionary politics in early modern Europe, it is enjoyable and convincing. As an essay that prompts engagement with the text under question, it is wonderful. ( )