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Manolis Papoutsakis explores the conception of -vicarious kingship,- a theme in Syriac political theology in Late Antiquity. Although the idea that the ruler on earth serves as the vicegerent of God in heaven is not an invention of Syriac writers, it appears that, within the Christian tradition, Syriac poets and homilists between the fourth and sixth centuries -the period covered in this monograph- are the first to introduce -vicarious kingship- into a carefully thought-out and consistent eschatological pattern. These learned intellectuals elaborate on the imperial office by commenting on,...