Nili Sacher Fox. In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College 23. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2000. xvi, 367 pp.
Fox's objective is “to refine current definitions of titles of royal functionaries and their roles in the monarchic state-organization and to create a tentative reconstruction of the government structure” (p. 269). Secondarily, she questions whether “Israelite officialdom and administrative pra...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2003
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AJS review
Year: 2003, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-111 |
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Book review
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| Summary: | Fox's objective is “to refine current definitions of titles of royal functionaries and their roles in the monarchic state-organization and to create a tentative reconstruction of the government structure” (p. 269). Secondarily, she questions whether “Israelite officialdom and administrative practices were modeled after foreign prototypes” (p. 276f). |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009403241003 |