An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users Matthew V. Novenson. 267 the Hebrew Bible and in the centuries- long ... in author- ity to men will henceforth be my theme.... All the rights of the kings and all their insignia were ...
This book traces the history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament.