Die 'Zwei Korper des Konigs' in den westsemitischen Kulturen

English summary: Dagmar Kuhn examines the Ancient Near Eastern and the Old Testament concept of kingship with reference to the concept of "The king's two bodies", established by the historian Ernst H. Kantorowicz regarding the European Middle Ages. According to this concept the king had both a mortal body and an immortal body, joint inseparable in his person. It was developed in Elizabethan Tudor ...