King of Kings by Justin Pannkuk - 9781481314060

King of KingsGod and the Foreign Emperor in the Hebrew Bible\nAuthor(s): Justin Pannkuk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Baylor University Press, United States\nImprint: Baylor University Press\nISBN-13: 9781481314060, 978-1481314060\nSynopsis\nFrom the eighth to second centuries BCE, ancient Israel and Judah were threatened and dominated by a series of foreign empires. This traumatic history prompted serious theological reflection and recalibration, specifically to address the relationship between God and foreign kings. This relationship provided a crucial locus for thinking theologically about empire, for if the rival sovereignty possessed and expressed by kings such as Sennacherib of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Cyrus of Persia, and Antiochus IV Epiphanes was to be rendered meaningful, it somehow had to be assimilated into a Yahwistic theological framework.\n\nIn King of Kings, Justin Pannkuk tells the stories of how the biblical texts modeled the relationship between God and.