'There's such Divinity doth Hedge a King': Selected Essays of Nicolas Wyatt on Royal Ideology in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature

Abstract

Contents: Preface '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 Bibliography Index.

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