Nili Sacher Fox. In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College 23. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2000. xvi, 367 pp.
Nili Sacher Fox. In
the
Service
of
the
King:
Officialdom
in
Ancient
Israel
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Judah. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College 23. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2000. xvi, 367 pp.
Hermann Michael Nieman a1 a1 University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Fox's objective is “to refine current definitions of titles of royal functionaries and their roles in the monarchic state-organization and to create a tentative reconstruction of the government structure” (p. 269). Secondarily, she questions whether “Israelite officialdom and administrative practices were modeled after foreign prototypes” (p. 276f).
