One of the main aspects of biblical religion is the concept that the biblical God is a supernatural entity separated from the physical world. This biblical God is seen as the sole king over humans, thus many of the laws within biblical religion limit the ability for humans to rule over one another. I believe that this limitation of human rule is the foundation of the differences between the royal ideology of the ancient Israelites and Israel’s pagan neighbors. In my opinion the differences between the royal ideologies of the ancient Israelites and of Israel’s pagan neighbors are based on the types of kings that the different nations had. Many of the pagan people had kings whom they believed were super humans who possessed divine god like
