Tertullian, who attempted to draw a false distinction between Greek philosophy and Jewish faith. However, Hazony’s objections are not limited to the Father of the Latin Church. The author also criticizes German research universities and their teachers for jointly perpetuating the notion that the Hebrew Bible is a work of unreason and irrelevance, based on Englightenment ideals of Graecophilia.
Although he never defines the term, Hazony is willing to argue that the biblical texts are philosophical, not in the sense that they are sequentially deductive, but in the sense that they include the reason. For Hazony, the narrative history of Israel from Abraham to the eventual destruction of the divided monarchy creates a basic history from which a political theory of a restricted state is built, holding up the shepherd’s ethics as ideal.
Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725886.2015.1010337?journalCode=cmjs20
