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There's such divinity doth hedge a king : selected essays of Nicolas Wyatt on royal ideology in Ugaritic and Old Testament literature

Title
There's such divinity doth hedge a king : selected essays of Nicolas Wyatt on royal ideology in Ugaritic and Old Testament literature / Nicolas Wyatt.
Author
Wyatt, N. (Nick)
Publication
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2005.

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Description
xiii, 298 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume presents Nicolas Wyatt's discussions of royal ideology, its mythic and ritual expressions and various literary treatments in ancient Israel, viewed from a comparative perspective. Exploring the possibility that in many of the manifestations of Israelite kingship we can detect the influence of broader cultural patterns, notably as found in Egyptian and West Semitic contexts, Nicolas Wyatt explores the main early cultural influences on Israel and emphasizes the mythic dimension in which the 'divinity' of the king is a real factor."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Society for Old Testament Study
Uniform Title
Society for Old Testament Study monographs
Subject
  • Bibel
  • Kings and rulers > Biblical teaching
  • Ugaritic literature > Relation to the Old Testament
  • Kings and rulers > Religious aspects > History of doctrines
  • 11.43 Old Testament in relation to other cultures
  • 18.70 Semitic languages and/or literature
  • Kings and rulers
  • Kings and rulers > Biblical teaching
  • Ugaritic literature > Relation to the Old Testament
  • König
  • Literatur
  • Ugaritisch
  • Koningschap
  • Oude Testament
  • Oegaritisch
  • Letterkunde
  • Ugaritic literature > Relation to the Bible
  • Kings and rulers > Religious aspects > History of doctrines
  • Middle East > Kings and rulers
  • Middle East
  • Middle East > Kings and rulers
  • Ugaritisch
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-290) and index.
Contents
'Araunah the Jebusite' and the throne of David -- 'Jedidiah' and cognate forms as a title of royal legitimization -- Cain's wife -- The hollow crown : ambivalent elements in West Semitic royal ideology -- Echoes of the king and his ka : an ideological motif in the story of Solomon's birth -- When Adam delved : the meaning of Genesis 3:23 -- 'Supposing Him to be the gardener' (John 20:15) : a study of the paradise motif in John -- The meaning of El Roi and the mythological dimension of Genesis 16 -- The theogony motif in Ugarit and the Bible -- The liturgical context of Psalm 19 and its mythical and ritual origins -- Ilimilku's ideological programme : Ugaritic royal propaganda, and a biblical postscript -- Arms and the king : the earliest allusions to the Chaoskampf motif and their implications for the interpretation of the Ugaritic and biblical traditions -- Degrees of divinity : some mythical and ritual aspects of West Semitic kingship -- Ilimilku the theologian : the ideological roles of Athtar and Baal in KTU 1.1 and 1.6 -- Marriage, mayhem and murder : an everyday story of royal folk.
ISBN
  • 0754653307
  • 9780754653301
LCCN
2004025754
OCLC
  • ocm57003793
  • 57003793
  • SCSB-1373313
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library