The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel / Benjamin D. Sommer.

Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Je...

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Main Author: Sommer, Benjamin D., 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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505 0 |a God's body and the Bible's interpreters -- Fluidity of divine embodiment and selfhood : Mesopotamia and Canaan -- The fluidity model in ancient Israel -- The rejection of the fluidity model in ancient Israel -- God's bodies and sacred space (1) : tent, ark, and temple -- God's bodies and sacred space (2) : difficult beginnings -- The perception of divinity in biblical tradition : implications and afterlife -- Appendix : monotheism and polytheism in ancient israel. 
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520 |a Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in Kabbalah and the trinity in Christianity represent a late version of this theology. This book forces us to rethink the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, as this notion of divine fluidity is found in both polytheistic cultures (Babylonia, Assyria, Canaan) and monotheistic ones (biblical religion, Jewish mysticism, Christianity), whereas it is absent in some polytheistic cultures (classical Greece). The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue. 
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