Crown and the courts. separation of powers in the early jewish imagination, hardback/david c. flatto

The idea of the separation of powers, a bedrock of modern constitutionalism, has a deeper history.

David Flatto uncovers striking antecedents in the writings of Jewish scholars and rabbis of antiquity.

Under foreign rule, they constructed a vision of earthly separation of powers that made law and the courts, not the crown, supreme.