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While church tradition bears strong witness to Mary’s role as royalty, to date, the biblical basis to support such doctrine has been unclear. In Queen Mother: A Biblical Theology of Mary’s Queenship, Edward Sri elucidates the common approaches taken to Mary’s role as queen and demonstrates how the “queen mother” theme in the Davidic kingdom can shed light on the presentation of Mary as heavenly...

We will find great importance given to the mother of the king in the monarchies of ancient Israel as well. To that topic we now turn our attention. Just like her Near Eastern neighbors, Israel bestowed great honor upon the mother of the ruling king. Roland De Vaux notes how the queen mother was given a special preeminence over all the women in the kingdom of Judah, even the king’s wife. He highlights
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