A molder of society

Societies can be molded. Indeed, they must be molded, else they remain shapeless; and shapeless societies become homes to shapeless people who then become readily susceptible to being heaped together into an amorphous mass that can turn easily into a mob. 

The true artist of the ideological realm is able to see the social order and to give it shape and texture. That is what Hannah Arendt's genius was. 

The Bible is also a molder of society. As a document, it presents a blueprint for a new social order. The Bible is an experiment in social design. It has been misconstrued as a manual for ethical conduct, which is why, although it has spawned whole libraries of codes of conduct and codes of Jewish law, it has produced not even one single book of political, national design, not a single book that looks at the whole of the Jewish people as a unity to be molded and re-molded into an effective nation. 

The lack of unity among the people is the direct result of this failure of vision on the part of the Jewish thinkers. They simply cannot conceive of the Jewish people as being the stuff of nationhood.