Sacral Kingship Research Articles

Old and New Testament Traces of a Formula of the Judaean Royal Ritual1)

Various elements of the ancient oriental Royal Ritual 2) have remained alive over a long period of time. Some of them have exercised a varied and highly important influence in the course of the historical development of several Near East religions. This fact, often observed and recalled, for a long time has been one of the established data of research. Moreover, the recent efforts toward a better elucidation of the spiritual and cultural relations between antiquity and Christianity are continually encountering connections which indicate after-effects of certain features in the Royal Ritual. In view of this, it is not surprising that there have been recent attempts to trace influences of this type within the New Testament as well, and with their help to make certain traditions and contexts more intelligible. It is that much less surprising since the concept of sacral kingship, even though in the special form of biblical messianism, plays an important role in the New Testament. In fact, certain early gospel traditions are of such a kind as to require special examination in this respect. As will be demonstrated, they are to be found above all in the Synoptic Gospels which are concerned with the messianic life of Jesus of Nazareth and his messianic self-witness.

SACRAL KINGSHIP—AN ASHANTI FOOTNOTE

SACRAL KINGSHIP—AN ASHANTI FOOTNOTE Get access C. S. MANN C. S. MANN Burnham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, October 1960, Pages 378–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/5.4.378 Published: 01 October 1960

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel. By AUBREY R. JOHNSON. Pp. viii+154. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1955. 12s. 6d. NORMAN H. SNAITH NORMAN H. SNAITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume VIII, Issue 2, October 1957, Pages 293–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/VIII.2.293 Published: 01 October 1957

Sacral Kingship in Ancient IsraelJohnsonA. R. Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel , 1955, viii+155CardiffUniversity of Wales Press, 12s. 6d.

Sacral Kingship in Ancient IsraelJohnsonA. R. <i>Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel</i> , 1955, viii+155CardiffUniversity of Wales Press, 12s. 6d.

Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel

Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel

Book Review: Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel

Book Review: Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel

The sacral king in Africa

Not a few students have with varying success tried to penetrate the baffling and almost inconceivable veil of mystery that hedges round the sacral kings in Africa. It may be that each individual investigator has too one-sidedly grappled with the problem and only seen some detail or other; here and there attempts have been made to follow up some particular theory and to establish it with but little regard to evidential material; while in single cases (e. g. Roheim) inadequate elementary knowledge was the rock upon which the attempt was wrecked. Different schools oppose each other. Evolutionism is represented by Frazer, and culture-historical trends by students like Frobenius, W. Schmidt, Schebesta, Spannaus, Baumann and Schilde. Apart from these there arose under the leadership of Seligman a school followed, among others, by Brauer, Driberg and Wieschhoff. This school maintains that the complex of customs that is generally summed up under the name of sacral kingship has been imported into Africa from the Near East by means of (ancient) Hamitic immigration, and consequently constitutes an Hamitic culture element in Africa. About this, these latter decades opinions have been much divided, and discussions have at times been very heated. In his doctoral treatise, »The King of Ganda» (The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, New Series, publication No. 8, Lund 1944), T. Irstam gives with regard to Africa special attention to the valuable results that Widengren and Engnell have published in their fundamental studies of the sacral kingship in the Near East and Egypt. After having thouroughly scrutinized the African material and carefully gone through the