Myth, Ritual, and Kingship : Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the Ancient Near East and in Israel.

Hooke, S. H. (Samuel Henry) [ 1874-1968 ] ; editor:

Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1958

About this Item

22x14cm, xi, 308 pp., Some light cover spots & soil. Some small binding corner bumps. Name inked on flyleaf. Light stain to spine. Contains 8 papers. Includes: Myth & Ritual: Past & Present; 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 & Kingship in the Ras Shamra Tablets [R. de Langhe]; Early Hebrew Myths & their Interpretation [G. Widengren]; Hebrew Conceptions of Kingship [A.R. Johnson]; Ritual & the Hebrew Prophets [H.H. Rowley]. Some lightly pencilled underlinings. Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Myth, Ritual, and Kingship : Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the Ancient Near East and in Israel.
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1958
• Binding: orig. cloth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mythology