Welcome to the Eric Matexis show with your host, Eric Matexis.

Folks, welcome back.

I'm talking to Bill Federer, AmericanMinute.com.

So Bill, we're having a wide-ranging conversation on purpose because this is a delightful romp

through the centuries, through the millennia of history, understanding how we got to be where

we are today, where American liberty and self-government come from, and you've made the case extraordinarily

well even in this short time about how we get it from ancient Israel, which most people

don't know.

This is a fact.

This is not your interpretation.

This is fact.

But other than you and I, Guinness, I can't think of anybody who's written about this.

Are there any other books that I'm missing where people have written about this in a way

that we would want to read it?

I don't know.

Well, there definitely are, especially some of the old ones.

Again, from 1517 to more or less, 1617, you have a century where the scholars in Europe,

James Harrington, and so we're writing on the Hebrew Republic, so much so that they're

called Christian-hebrayists.

One of the famous Puritan Christian-hebrayists was being put in prison and he told me

he could have two books. He picked the Bible and the Jerusalem Talmud.

They became scholars that later rabbis would quote them, and they would study mannities.

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