Volume 33 Issue 1 A JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Fall/Winter 2005 3 David Azerrad The Two Ways: Egypt and Israel in the Torah 19 Avery Plaw Prince Harry: Shakespeare’s Critique of Machiavelli 45 Dennis Teti The Unbloody Sacrifice: The Catholic Theology of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice 93 David Janssens A Change of Orientation: Leo Strauss’s “Comments” on Carl Schmitt Revisited 105 Book Review: David Lewis Schaefer Leo Strauss and His Legacy: A Bibliography edited by John A. Murley ©2006 Interpretation, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of the contents may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the publisher. ISSN 0020-9635 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS The journal welcomes manuscripts in political philosophy in the broad sense. Submitted articles can be interpretations of literary works, theological works, and writings on jurisprudence with an important bearing on political philosophy. Contributors should follow The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition). Instead of footnotes or endnotes, the journal has adopted the Author-Date system of documentation described in this manual and illustrated in the present issue of the journal. The Chicago Manual of Style offers publications the choice between sentence-style references to titles of works or articles and headline-style references to them. I NTERPRETATION uses the headline style. Parenthetical references no longer use “p”, “pp.”, “cf.”, “see”, “f.”, “ff.” or the like. The year of publication follows the author’s name in the list of References. As implemented by I NTERPRETATION , the Author-Date system requires titles of books and articles in a list of References always to be followed by a period rather than a comma. Words from languages not rooted in Latin should be transliterated to English. Foreign expressions which have not become part of English should be accompanied by translation into English. To insure impartial judgment, contributors should omit mention of their other publications and put, on the title page only, their name, any affiliation desired, address with postal zip code in full, email address, and telephone number. Please send one copy in Word or Rich Text Format as an attachment to an email message to
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[email protected] “For you shall know that God will have differentiated between Egypt and Israel.” (Ex. 11: 7) In the late nineteenth century, German and French scholars, emboldened by important discoveries in the emerging field of Egyptology, returned to the Bible to reconsider its depiction of Egypt. Their conclusions, not surprisingly perhaps, were quite critical of the biblical portrayal. A few decades later, by the time Flinders Petrie’s Egypt and Israel (1911) and T. Eric Peet’s Egypt and the Old Testament (1924) reached the English-speaking public, a growing number of scholars viewed the biblical account as historically inaccurate. Such criticism, whether true or not, ultimately rests on a flawed understanding of the aims of the Hebrew Bible in general, and of the Pentateuch in particular. All too often, biblical scholars misconstrue the Pentateuch as a history of the formation of the Jewish people. Thus, acco