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

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; 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.