Professor Michael Selzer

Notes on Theomonarchism in the Biblical Text Professor Michael Selzer

Almost but not completely obscured in the Biblical text are passages that affirm the existence of a doctrine that God rules Israel and that therefore no mortal may do so. This doctrine - theomonarchism - runs counter to the fervent monarchism that prevailed when the Biblical text was finally set. Nevertheless, traces of its existence did survive there, though little attention is usually paid to them. In NOTES ON THEOMONARCHISM these traces are identified and the more notable among them analyzed. MICHAEL SELZER has an undergraduate degree in Semitic studies from the University of Oxford.