“His deputy anointed in His sight”: Kingship in Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

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August 11 2021
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Series: Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought

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Collections: Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

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How has the Hebrew Bible impacted the intellectual development of the West? How might a deeper understanding of Saul and David’s biblical narrative help us read Shakespeare’s meditations on the nature of kingship? In this episode, Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of the YU’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, examines the legitimacy, majesty, and humility of monarchy (or lack thereof) in Shakespeare’s Richard II and Macbeth.

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