Disempowered king [electronic resource] : monarchy in classical Jewish literature / Yair Lorberbaum.
Lorberbaum, Yair.
2011
BM496.9.K5 L67 2011
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Title Disempowered king [electronic resource] : monarchy in classical Jewish literature / Yair Lorberbaum.
Author Lorberbaum, Yair.
ISBN 9781441154293
9781441140883
9781441127693 (electronic book)
Publication Details New York : Continuum, 2011.
Language English
Description xi, 213 p.
Call Number BM496.9.K5 L67 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 296.1/2083216
Summary Subordinated King studies the conception of kingship, and its status, powers and authority in Talmudic literature. The book deals with the conception of kingship against the background of the different approaches to kingship both in Biblical literature and in the political views prevalent in the Roman Empire. In the Bible one finds three (exclusive) approaches to kingship: rejection of the king as a legitimate political institution - since God is the (political) king; a version of royal theology according to which the king is divine (or sacral); and a view that God is not a political king yet the king has no divine or sacral dimension. The king is flesh and blood; hence his authority and power are limited. He is a 'subordinated king'. Subordinated King is the first book to offer a comprehensive study of kingship in Talmudic literature and its biblical (and contemporary) background. The book offers a fresh conceptual framework that sheds new light on both the vast minutia and the broad picture.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Series Kogod library of Judaic studies ; 9.
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Introduction
Chap. 1. Three approaches to kingship in Israel. Direct theocracy: God is the king
Royal theology: the king is God
Limited monarchy: the king is not God
Chap. 2. Rabbinic literature: the law of the king. The commandment of the king
Three commandments
The law of the kingdom in the Book of Samuel
Limitations on the king
The king and war
Separation between monarchy and priesthood
Anointing
Chap 3. Rabbinic literature: the king and the law. The king does not judge, nor is he judged
Before you my judgment shall come forth
The king's subjugation to the Torah
Chap. 4. Limited monarchy in Tannaitic halakhah: reasons and context. That his fear shall be upon you
Royal theology and the image of God
Chapter 5. Echoes of direct theocracy and of royal theology in the aggadah
Chap. 6. The sages' understanding of monarchy in light of their own political situation.

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