The Three Crowns
Structures of Communal Politics in Early Rabbinic Jewry
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 22 February 1990
- ISBN 9780521372909
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 216x138x22 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Examines scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action.
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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 enquiry. Focusing on the structures of communal rule forged during the first five centuries of the common era, the book presents an analysis of the processes whereby the rabbis and their disciples replaced both priests and civic rulers as foci of political royalty 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 which determined Jewish public behaviour) and adapt it to rabbinic purposes.
"A very illuminating historical account of the ways in which gender has played a central role in Iranian politics. The processes of veiling, unveiling and reveiling provide a rich background around which much more is analyzed -from the efforts to control women's sexuality, to factors affecting women's labor force participation, to the active and important role played by women's agency at many levels. Sedghi has accumulated an enormous amount of information that documents Iran's development path and the historical, political, and cultural contexts that have shaped women's lives, gender dynamics and gender politics throughout the twentieth century and up to the present. The book is likely to become a key text for anyone interested not only in Iran and the Muslim world, but also in the wider issues of gender and development and of feminist politics."
-Lourdes Bener&&&237;a, Cornell University
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The concept of the three ketarim; Part 1. 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.
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