There's Such Divinity Doth Hedge a King
Subtitle: Selected Essays Of Nicolas Wyatt On Royal Ideology In Ugaritic And Old Testament Literature (Society for Old Testament ... (Society for Old Testament Study Monographs)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780754653301
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; History of religion; Old Testament; Ugaritic literature; Kings and rulers; Christianity - Theology - General; Religion; Bibles; Religious aspects; Middle East; Biblical Studies - General; Biblical teaching; Christian Theology - General; History; History of doctrines; Relation to the Old Testament; Bible - General
First sentence: An important event in the consolidation of David's control over the newly-conquered city of Jerusalem was his acquisition of the threshing-floor of 'Araunah the Jebusite', which was already a sacred place of some importance, and was to become the site of the temple which so powerfully symbolized the cohesive power of the cult of Yahweh in the empire which David then proceeded to build.