- Introduction: Law and Power in Biblical and Western Jurisprudence
- I. 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
- II. Rabbinic Literature
- 5. Kingship and Law in Tannaitic Literature
- 6. Juridical Models in Tannaitic Literature
- 7. The Nasi and the Judiciary in Rabbinic Literature
- III. Roots, Theory, Afterlife
- 8. Formative Factors
- 9. Ancient and Modern Jurisprudence
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Names and Terms
- Index Locorum


The Crown and the Courts
Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination
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