Yair Lorberbaum is Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has served as a guest lecturer at Cardozo Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Princeton University, and Yale University. His most recent book, Image of God: Halakha and Aggadah, won him the prestigious Goldstein-Goren Book Award for 2007-2010; the award is bestowed once every three years to the author of the best recent book in the field of Jewish thought.

• 1. Three Conceptions of Kingship in the Bible; 2. Rabbinic Literature I - The Law of the King; 3. Rabbinic Literature II - The King and the Law; 4. Restricted Kingship in Tannaitic Halakhah - Reasons and Contexts; 5. Echo's of Direct Theocracy and of Royal Theology in Aggadah; 6. The Rabbis Conception of Kingship in Light of their Socio-Political Status; Bibliography; Index of Sources; Index of Names; General Index.

Yair Lorberbaum is Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has served as a guest lecturer at Cardozo Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Princeton University, and Yale University. His most recent book, Image of God: Halakha and Aggadah, won him the prestigious Goldstein-Goren Book Award for 2007-2010; the award is bestowed once every three years to the author of the best recent book in the field of Jewish thought.

• 1. Three Conceptions of Kingship in the Bible; 2. Rabbinic Literature I - The Law of the King; 3. Rabbinic Literature II - The King and the Law; 4. Restricted Kingship in Tannaitic Halakhah - Reasons and Contexts; 5. Echo's of Direct Theocracy and of Royal Theology in Aggadah; 6. The Rabbis Conception of Kingship in Light of their Socio-Political Status; Bibliography; Index of Sources; Index of Names; General Index.

Yair Lorberbaum is Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has served as a guest lecturer at Cardozo Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Princeton University, and Yale University. His most recent book, Image of God: Halakha and Aggadah, won him the prestigious Goldstein-Goren Book Award for 2007-2010; the award is bestowed once every three years to the author of the best recent book in the field of Jewish thought.

• 1. Three Conceptions of Kingship in the Bible; 2. Rabbinic Literature I - The Law of the King; 3. Rabbinic Literature II - The King and the Law; 4. Restricted Kingship in Tannaitic Halakhah - Reasons and Contexts; 5. Echo's of Direct Theocracy and of Royal Theology in Aggadah; 6. The Rabbis Conception of Kingship in Light of their Socio-Political Status; Bibliography; Index of Sources; Index of Names; General Index.