Originally published in JJSO 30:2 (1988), pp. 138-9. Gershon Weiler, Jewish Theocracy, xiv + 332 pp., E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1988, 70 guilders (or $35.00). After examining, with philosophical acumen, the idea of a Jewish theocracy from Josephus (who first coined the term) and Philo through Maimonides, Abravanel, and Spinoza, Weiler argues that it is impossible for a…