Eric Nelson is an American historian and Professor of Government at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

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He received his A.B. from Harvard University (1999) and his PhD from The University of Cambridge (2002).

His scholarly interests include the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, the history of republican political theory, the Hebrew republic

Hebrew republic

The Hebrew Republic, also “De Republica Hebraeorum”, and also “Respublica Hebraeorum”, is an early modern concept in political theory in which Christian scholars regarded the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution framing a perfect and republican government designed by God for the children of...

, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

Books

• The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

• The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, forthcoming from Harvard University Press

• Editor of Hobbes's translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008).