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Major Prophet by IBSPRODUCTION(m): 1:18pm On Feb 04, 2013
Discuss the reverence of the book of ezekiel to the socio,political and religious situation of the country.
Re: Major Prophet by Areaboy2(m): 1:23pm On Feb 04, 2013
huh??
Re: Major Prophet by IBSPRODUCTION(m): 1:31pm On Feb 04, 2013
(nesi'im) for purposes of policy making.
During for first two generations of the tribal confederacy, a single Eved Adonai, who was granted God's charisma, exercised authority over all the tribes according to the biblical account. Moses and Joshua were the two figures to bear that title and exercise such authority. To the extent that the Eved Adonai's principal function was to serve as God's messenger, as was particularly true in the case of Moses, we already have the embryonic division of powers which was to become classic in the Jewish polity and which a thousand years later was to be defined in terms of three ketarim (literally, crowns or investitures of authority). Under this system the principal task of the Eved Adonai was to bring God's word to the people. This later became the task of the prophets and the soferim ("Scribes"wink who developed the ketaric terminology.11
The Eved Adonai also shared power with the priests, particularly Aaron and his sons, who had their own covenant with God establishing them as a hereditary priesthood with certain constitutional functions, principally judicial in character, as well as cultic ones.
The principal function of the priests was to provide a channel of communication from the people of God. They continued this function throughout the biblical period, through what was later termed the keter kehunah.
The nesi'im (literally, those raised up, best translated as magistrates) and zekenim (elders) were responsible for the day-to-day governance of the people, a function which was later defined as the keter malkhut (literally, crown of kingship, understood more generally as the domain of civil rule). They had a dual function in that they headed the individual tribes and also participated in the governance of the nation as a whole.12 An additional republican guarantee of this system was the fact that the Israelites had no standing army but relied for protection on the tribal militias consisting of every male age twenty or over.
The entire body politic was known as Adat B'nai Yisrael from the time of the Exodus onward. Edah means congregation or assembly and reflects the popular and republican basis of the Israelite polity. Thus from Sinai onward, constitutional decisions were taken by the entire edah: men, women, and children, assembled together to give their consent, while major policy decisions such as declarations of war were made by the edah in its more limited form of men of military age. Day-to-day governance was in the hands of the institutions mentioned above, who represented the edah. It was the edah which God led directly and to which He spoke through the Eved Adonai. Within the limits of God's constitution the edah acted autonomously.13
Once the nation had been formed by Moses and settled in the land by Joshua, no single national leaders of this kind emerged until the very end of the first constitutional epoch. Instead, regional shofetim (judges)

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