Given the length of this monograph, I have provided aids to make its contents more accessible, and its comparative analysis more useful. The first aid is the Table of Contents. Its organization reflects my thesis: the Covenanters’ alternative civic ideology motivated their development of organizational and regulatory patterns along the lines of a state. Evidence in support for the thesis often comes in the laws of the Rule Scrolls themselves, which reflect state-like concerns (e.g., capital punishment, proper conduct during warfare, authority over the Jerusalem priesthood and temple cult, registration of native-born citizens, comprehensive care for the vulnerable); much evidence also comes in analogies to contemporary political literature and practices. Complementary to the TOC, and probably more immediately useful, are the synoptic tables at the end of the Conclusion and Synopsis (Chapter Six).