Title: Vicarious kingship
Description: In Late Antiquity, the biblical text served as the fundamental source of reference for Syriac intellectuals in their thinking about political power. Manolis Papoutsakis takes this point seriously and explains in detail the different exegetical steps by which certain attitudes to imperial power were reached.
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, History, Syriac Christian poetry, Political theology, God, Kingship, Bible, Syriac literature
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600