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David Goodblatt. The Monarchic Principle: Studies in Jewish Self-Government in Antiquity. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1994. xii, 336 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Stuart S. Miller
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut at Storrs, Storrs, Conn
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1. Schwartz, D. R., “Josephus on the Jewish Constitution and Community,” Scripta Classica Israelica 7 (1983–84): 4351.Google Scholar

2. See especially Assumption of Moses 6:1.

3. Hultgard, A., L'eschatologie des Testaments des Douze Patriarches, vol. 1 (Uppsala, 1977), pp. 1545.Google Scholar

4. Levine, L. I., The Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine in Late Antiquity (Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1989), pp. 7683.Google Scholar

5. See Levine, L., “The Status of the Patriarch in the Third and Fourth Centuries: Sources and Methodology,” Journal of Jewish Studies 47, no. 1 (1996): 11 f.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6. Goodblatt, on p. 142, wrongly identifies the passage as Ruth Rabbah 4:4.

7. For an in-depth discussion of the passage and its parallels, see Miller, S. S., “Those Cantankerous Sepphoreans Revisited,” in Ki Baruch Hu: Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Judaic Studies in Honor of Baruch A. Levine, ed. Chazan, R.M, W. W. Hallo, and L. H. Schiffinan (Warsaw, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1999), pp. 550–57.Google Scholar