2001, Marilynn Giroux Hitchens, Heidi Roupp, Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat II: World History, page 29:
Thus, Egyptian civilization emerged confident, tranquil, and insular. Geographical unity gave rise to political unity under the authority of one king, a pharaoh. Pharaohs of the Egyptian theocracy were not only absolute rulers and owners of the country, but were also worshipped as gods.
2003, Jan Assmann, The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs, page 300:
As far as the first four Egyptian dynasties are concerned, we may with some justice speak of direct theocracy because there the rule of the pharaoh was understood not as a representation but as an embodiment of god.
2011, Sam Lucerne, Theocracies, page 34:
In ancient Egypt's theocracy, a pharaoh, who was considered divine, was the head […]
2015 November 20, Daniel M. Bell Jr., chapter 6, in Craig Hovey, Elizabeth Phillips, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology[1], New York: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 125:
As Cavanaugh writes, “Strictly speaking, the world is a theocracy: it is ruled by God.”⁵³ Ward makes a similar claim when he writes, “[T]he kingdom of God is a theocracy and theocratic politics is what Christians are about.”⁵⁴
