You Get to Be King, but You Have to Act Out the Spirit of Being King

The old testament can be read at least in part as description of a sequenceof the rise and fall of states. And so we'll leave it at that, because i want to tell you the next part of the story,. which is also the last lecture. We've got about twelve minutes if we want it. So if anybody has any questions, you can ask them, or we can. And if you don't, we could call it a day. I dint's like the idea that the mesopotamians had, that the emperor was supposed to be an emissary of marduk. He could confront chaos and make order. That was what gave him his sovereignty....