The Crown and the Courts / / David C. Flatto.
A scholar of law and religion uncovers a surprising origin story behind the idea of the separation of powers.The separation of powers is a bedrock of modern constitutionalism, but striking antecedents were developed centuries earlier, by Jewish scholars and rabbis of antiquity. Attending carefully t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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