The crown and the courts : separation of powers in the early Jewish imagination / David C. Flatto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flatto, David C., author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Separation of powers--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Separation of powers.

Jewish law--History.

Jewish law.

History.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Law and Power in Biblical and Western Jurisprudence

Part One. Second Temple Literature

1. Postbiblical Jurisprudence

2. Philo's Jurisprudence

3. Qumran Literature on Kingship, Councils, and Law

4. Josephus on Kingship, Theocracy, and Law

Part Two. Rabbinic Literature

5. Kingship and Law in Tannaitic Literature

6. Juridical Models in Tannaitic Literature

7. The Nasi and the Judiciary in Rabbinic Literature

Part Three. Roots, Theory, Afterlife

8. Formative Factors

9. Ancient and Modern Jurisprudence

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index of Names and Terms

Index Locorum

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Flatto, David C. The Crown and the Courts

ISBN:

0674249607

9780674249608

Publisher Number:

99985319230

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