kingship. Kings and queens have great power, but as those "far above" everyone else they are vulnerable. They can take credit for what goes right, but they can be blamed for what goes wrong. Either because of this vulnerability or their original victim status, or both, monarchs in primitive societies were often ritually slain, either periodically or occasionally. But in the biblical tradition, beginning with the Jewish Scriptures, there is a unique point of view on what is divine and what is human, on deity and victim.
