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Myth, ritual, and kingship; essays on the theory and practice of kingship in the ancient Near East and in Israel.

Author: S H Hooke
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1958.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: S H Hooke
OCLC Number: 3402275
Notes: "Lectures ... given at the University of Manchester in the autumn of 1955 and the spring of 1956 ... now published, with one addition."
Description: xi, 308 p. 23 cm.
Contents: Myth and ritual : past and present / by the editor --
The practice of kingship in early Semitic kingdoms / Sidney Smith --
The kingship rituals of Egypt / H.W. Fairman --
Hittite kingship / O.R. Gurney --
Myth, ritual, and kingship in the Ras Shamra tablets / R. De Langhe --
Early Hebrew myths and their interpretation / G. Widengren --
Hebrew conceptions of kingship / A.R. Johnson --
Ritual and the Hebrew prophets / H.H. Rowley.

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