Anti-Monarchy

The Book of Chronicles updates and reinterprets Deuteronomy’s court system.

Reading the Succession Narrative as anti-monarchic Greek tragedy.

Several biblical passages imply that God was ritually enthroned as king during the new year celebrations. In the Torah itself, however, this is suppressed. God as king appears only in three ancient poetic passages, never in the Torah’s prose or laws, including in its description of Rosh Hashanah.