This major work covers the Jewish political tradition from its biblical beginnings to the present day. The tradition is illuminated in its various epochs by identifying how its principles and modes of action were embodied in the institutions of the Jewish people over their long history.

The Jewish Polity: Jewish Political Organization from Biblical Times to the Present (Jewish Political and Social Studies Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Cohen, Stuart A.

ELAZAR,Daniel, J.

Politics & Government

Indiana Univ. Pr

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.

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

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Cambridge University Press

Democratic Societies and Their Armed Forces

Taylor&Francis

Religion now plays an increasingly prominent role in the discourse on international security. Within that context, attention largely focuses on the impact exerted by teachings rooted in Christianity and Islam. By comparison, the linkages between Judaism and the resort to armed force are invariably overlooked. This book offers a corrective. Comprising a series of essays written over the past two decades by one of Israel's most distinguished military sociologists, its point of departure is that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, quite apart from revolutionizing Jewish political activity, also triggered a transformation in Jewish military perceptions and conduct. Soldiering, which for almost two millennia was almost entirely foreign to Jewish thought and practice, has by virtue of universal conscription (for women as well as men) become a rite of passage to citizenship in the Jewish state. For practicing orthodox Jews in Israel that change generates dilemmas that are intellectual as well as behavioural, and has necessitated both doctrinal and institutional adaptations. At the same time, the responses thus evoked are forcing Israel's decision-makers to reconsider the traditional role of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as their country's most evocative symbol of national unity.

Divine Service?: Judaism and Israel's Armed Forces (Religion and International Security)

Social Sciences

Routledge

The Scroll Or the Sword ?: Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel

History

World

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

The Scroll Or the Sword ?: Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel (The Sherman Lectures Vol. 3)

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