Images de la théocratie à l'époque hellénistique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4082391 |
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| Authors | Christian-Georges Schwentzel (0000-0001-7219-4543, Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d’Histoire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Issue | 104 |
| Pages | 301-314 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pallas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-0387 • E-ISSN: 2272-7639 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/pallas.7792 |
| OpenAlex | W2918757310 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 13 |
Few ancient texts deal with the theory of theocracy, except a famous extract of Josephus’ Contra Apionem (2, 165). In the Bible and in the Maccabees’ books, theocracy has mostly been expressed through literary developments. Outside the Jewish culture, Oriental monarchs in the Hellenistic period invented their own theocratic iconography whose main theme was the investiture of the monarch by a great god sending an eagle and a crown to his chosen one, giving him a sword or coming down from the sky, like a star, to meet him
Art · Descendant · Humanities · Physics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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