Three Crowns: Structures of Communal Politics in Early Rabbinic Jewry
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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.
