Citation

Pierson C. Br. J. Polit. Int. Relat. 2010; 12(1): 72-87.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Political Studies Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-856X.2009.00394.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article considers treatments of the Bible story of Naboth and Ahab in the work of two thinkers separated by more than a millennium: St Ambrose and John Ponet. Both men treat this as a story about (among other things) property and political authority. Their emphases are different but there are similarities that make them plausibly part of a common tradition of reading the Bible for political effect.