Ancient Near Eastern forms of monarchy getting oversimplified every freakin' time:pic.twitter.com/W3oVTXN77K
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How much of this is just simple Orientalism at work?
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Quite a lot, but not all of it. Often students express this view of kingship through equally garbled understandings of what the phrase 'Divine right of kings' signifies.
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You can get your students to remember "divine right of kings"? Jealous
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No, it's something they vaguely half-remember from high school world history and then inappropriately apply outside of its particular context. To be fair, I can get *most* of my students to remember Royal Legitimacy = (Chief Judge, Chief General, Chief Priest)
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