Panel organized by the Editorial Board of the Journal Cristianesimo nella storiaThis panel aims to investigate, on the one hand, the aspects of governance and the relationship with the state and its perception within the sacred scriptures and, on the other hand, the scriptural influences and uses in the various reflections and hermeneutical reworkings on politics in post-biblical times, from Augustine to the French Revolution and beyond.Session 1 Chair:Philippe Luisier (Pontificio Istituto Orientale)Speakers:Peter Dubovsky (Pontificio Istituto Biblico), Wise Governance in the Book of KingsJean-Marie Salamito (Université Paris Sorbonne), Politics in Augustine’s WritingsFrances Andrews (University of St Andrews), “Nemo militans deo” (2 Tim 2:4) and its Interpretation in the Italian Communes of the Late Middle AgesSession 2Chair:Dafydd Daniel (University of St Andrews)Speakers:Charlotte Methuen (University of Glasgow), Luther’s Political Interpretation of the Song of SongsBernand Bourdin (Institut Catholique de Paris / Centre d’Études du Saulchoir), The Reading of 1 Sam 8:9-20 in the Doctrine of James VI of Scotland on Divine RightFrançois Huguenin-Maillot (Institut Catholique de Paris / IRCOM, Lyon), “All power comes from God”: Echoes of the Pauline Formula in the Political Thought of the Catholic Church from the French Revolution to the Present Day