Zionist Revisionists rejected the religious-moral view in favor of ancient Hebrew political power

Evidence

The Zionist Revisionists, on the other hand, maintained that true national rejuvenation lay elsewhere, in the discovery of the authentic powers that allowed the ancient Hebrew nation to flourish as a dominant regional power. They did not want to reduce the legacy of ancient Israel to another (however important) phase in the long process of the rise of Western culture; instead they sought to accentuate its uniqueness as a political entity that was part of a thriving Mediterranean world. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 545

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with Ben-Gurion’s moral-heritage framing at 543-544, showing an internal Jewish debate over how to position ancient Israel — religious-universal vs. political-martial. — connects to: Zionism made the Bible a national rather than religious text — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 327