Download or read book Vicarious Kingship written by Manolis Papoutsakis and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Late Antiquity, the biblical text served as the fundamental source of reference for Syriac intellectuals in their thinking about political power. Manolis Papoutsakis takes this point seriously and explains in detail the different exegetical steps by which certain attitudes to imperial power were reached.