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Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

For the past two episodes, we've been talking quite a bit about kingship, and that's because kingship is at the very heart of each of the major

religious traditions that we see in the ancient world. In episode number 45, who is God,

a heavenly king, we saw that kingship was at the heart of the ancient Egyptian religion. And then

in our last episode, episode number 46, we saw that kingship was at the very heart of the ancient Egyptian religion. And then in our last episode, episode number

46, we saw that kingship was at the very heart of the ancient Mesopotamian religion.

And in today's episode, you're going to see that kingship is at the very heart of the ancient

Canaanite, ancient Hebrew, and early Christian religions too.

If you're new to the program, we refer to things like this, the consistency in theology

that we see across time and space, like we see here with kingship, as a stubborn bit,

a theological tenet that stubbornly persists from generation to generation and from

continent to continent and from culture to culture. In our next episode, you're going to see that

gods understood as a king, almost universally across the world, among the Hurrians, the Hindu,

the Persians and the Greeks, among the Aztecs, the Basques and the Celts, among the Hurrians, the Hindu, the Persians, and the Greeks, among the Aztecs, the Basques, and the

Celts, among the Finns and the Hawaiians and the Inca, and among the Vietnamese, Japanese,

Japanese, and Chinese people. Each of these groups attest that God reigns in the heavens as a king.

It's a very strong, stubborn bit,

and this suggests, once again,

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