present sociopolitical arrangements. The latter are based on a reason that controls, on an economics that monopolizes, on a politics that pretends autonomy. These are embodied in the political claims of the Davidic dynasty, in the ritual pretensions of the Jerusalem priesthood and temple, and in the public arrangements of power, practiced and trusted in the royal temple system of Jerusalem. The sovereignty of God, however, is presented not simply as a norm for criticism. These poets speak not only