Deuteronomy and the balance of power.
The Imperial State Crown made for the coronation of King George VI in 1937 by Garrard and Company and worn by Queen Elizabeth II for her coronation in 1953.(Photo: Adam Hinton/Royal Collection Trust/HM Queen Elizabeth II 2022)
Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster explores the division of power in Deuteronomy.
Many years ago when I was living in Israel, I was approached at Haifa University by a leading academic. On behalf of a cross-party and cross-religious group of public intellectuals, lawyers and academics, he wanted to pick my brain on the British system of power. More specifically, he was interested in the role of Church, State and monarchy, and also how in the UK power was distributed between them.
I asked him why this was, and he said that most people were of the opinion that the judiciary in Israel was becoming far too strong and one-sided. Therefore, without either a constitution or a two-Party system, successive Israeli governments were finding that they were unable to govern properly and this was having repercussions both in Israel and in the wider world.
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