The Three Crowns
The Jewish national revival of our times has stimulated scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action. This study is a contribution to that inquiry. Focusing on the structures of communal rule forged during the first five centuries of the common era, the book presents a novel analysis of the processes whereby the rabbis and their disciples replaced both priests and civic rulers as foci of...
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Examines scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action.
Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; List of abbreviations; Introduction;1. The concept of the three ketarim; Part1. Versions of the Past: Visions of the Future: 2. Institutions and their instruments; 3. History as propaganda: the rabbinic version; 4. Other positions, other priorities; Part II. From Theory to Practice: the Struggle for Supremacy: 5. The first phase (c.135 BCE-c.100 CE); 6. Rabbis and priests (c.100 CE-c.300 CE); 7. Rabbis and appointed rulers (c.100 CE-c.400 CE); Part III. Ensuring Hegemony: 8. The institutionalisation of rabbinic authority; 9. Patterns of succession and pageants of installation; Afterword: a symbol and its resonance; Bibliography, Index.
