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 political loyalty and
instruments of domestic government throughout the Jewish world.
Cohen argues that much of Jewish political history during the age
of the Mishnah and Talmud can be read as a record of the attempt to
reinterpret the ancient concept of the three crowns (or clusters of
rulership that determined Jewish public behavior) and adapt it to
rabbinic purposes. Drawing on recent scholarship in Hebrew as well
as in English, this is the first book to advance a sustained and
overtly political analysis of these developments, as opposed to
simply a religious one. Throughout, its author illuminates the
conceptual dimensions that have influenced Jewish institutional
practice for much of the past two millennia.
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