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Title |
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Monarchy, Oligarchy, and Democracy in the Constitutional Debate in Herodotus and in 1 Samuel 8 - Leadership, Social Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth - Second Centuries BCE |
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Wolfgang Oswald; University of Tübingen; |
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Biblical Studies; Religion |
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deuteronomistic History; Herodotus; Constitutional Debate; monarchy; democracy; political theory; |
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Biblical Studies; Ancient History |
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This chapter compares two early samples of political theoretical reasoning: (1) the discussion on monarchy between the prophet Samuel and the elders of Israel in 1Samuel 8 and (2) the so-called Constitutional Debate in Herodotus III:80–82. For both texts the form of government is no longer considered to be divinely ordained or determined by tradition, rather it is a matter of dispute and deliberate decision. Herodotus’ Constitutional Debate is an outcome of the emergence of the citizen states in archaic Greece. 1Samuel 8 is part of the deuteronomistic History and thus an attempt to reconstitute the Judean society after the downfall of the monarchy in 587 BCE. Both texts dismiss monarchy, while they critically advocate some early form of democracy. |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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30-Dec-2016 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/26816 |
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10.1558/equinox.26816 |
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Equinox eBooks Publishing; Leadership, Social Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth - Second Centuries BCE |
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en |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |