Translations:How does Biblical law create the strongest possible "Rule of Law"?/16/en

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This law — that the king (and, by extension, any civil government official) is himself subject to the law — was "unique in the ancient Near East"[1]. Why?

  1. Ska, "Biblical Law and the Origins of Democracy" in The Ten Commandments: The Reciprocity of Faithfulness, 148