Constituting the Community
Subtitle: Studies on the Polity of Ancient Israel in Honor of S. Dean McBride, JR.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781575060781
Subjects: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Ancient World; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament
First sentence: In 1987, on the 200th anniversary of the U.S. constitution, S. Dean McBride wrote an article purporting that ancient Israel also developed a form of government during Josiah's reign, if not earlier during Hezekiah's, that emulated a constitutional form of government in that it sought to check the authority of the centralized governmental structures and protect the power of the individual citizens.