Piety and politics <subTitle>The dynamics of royal authority in Homeric Greece, biblical Israel, and old Babylonian Mesopotamia</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Launderville, Dale</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">0:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>William B. Eerdmans</publisher> <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>407tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover</extent> <extent>24cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Ancient kings who did not honor the gods overlooked an indispensable means for ruling effectively in their communities. In many traditional societies, royal authority was regarded as a divine gift bestowed according to the quality of the king's relationship to God or the gods and to the people. The tension and the harmony within these human and divine relationships demanded that the king repeatedly strive to integrate the community's piety with his political strategies.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Dale Launderville</note> <subject> <topic>Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects -- Israel</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">291.177093</classification> <classification authority="ddc">D139-L38</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0802839940</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/9/7/_41395150_140.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/9/7/_41395150_140.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">1</recordContentSource> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2022-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070736.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>