Author : Yair Lorberbaum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441127690
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Book Synopsis Disempowered King by : Yair Lorberbaum
Download or read book Disempowered King written by Yair Lorberbaum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disempowered 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 'disempowered king'. Disempowered 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.