Author: Hooke, S. H. (Samuel Henry) [ 1874-1968 ] ; editor:
Title: Myth, Ritual, and Kingship : Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the Ancient Near East and in Israel.
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1958. orig. cloth. 22x14cm, xi, 308 pp. Some light cover spots & soil. Some small binding corner bumps. Name inked on flyleaf. Light stain to spine.. Some lightly pencilled underlinings. Good. ¶ Contains 8 papers. Includes: Myth & Ritual: Past & Present; The Practice of Kingship in Early Semitic Kingdoms [Sidney Smith]; The Kingship Rituals of Egypt [H.W. Fairman]; Hittite Kingship [O.R. Gurney]; Myth, Ritual & Kingship in the Ras Shamra Tablets [R. de Langhe]; Early Hebrew Myths & their Interpretation [G. Widengren]; Hebrew Conceptions of Kingship [A.R. Johnson]; Ritual & the Hebrew Prophets [H.H. Rowley].

Keywords: Mythology, Kingship, Ritual Rituals, History, Myth, Ancient Near East, , ,