John Locke and the Hebrew Bible - What's Your Origin Story?

John Locke and the Hebrew Bible sound like pizza and ice cream, right? Both awesome, but you'd never assume they'd go well together. So what's your origin story here? What led you to want to create that bridge between the study of one of the most influential political theorists in the history of Western liberalism on the one hand and a religious text like the Hebrew Bible on the other? How did you come to that? Well, I really want to answer that question and get into a discussion on the topic. The very first week in the Jerusalem Center, I was invited to speak in Aris Ababa at a conference on peace and security in the Horn of Africa. And it was