The rabbinic regime was largely ad hoc and helter skelter. The rabbinic stabs at establishing political power under exilic conditions may have been sincere but they barely reflected the political/economic teachings of the biblical regime, on which they were ostensibly based. As far as the politics of the Israelite nation was concerned, the rabbinic leadership was no more continuous with the biblical teachings than either of the other daughter religions, Christianity and Islam.
The point is not to disqualify the rabbinic perspective, it is rather to reveal the biblical perspective and to expose to the light of day the Bible's political/economics, once and for all.
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