The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sommer, Benjamin D., 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:ACLS Fellows' publications.
Subjects:
God (Judaism) > History of doctrines.
Monotheism.
Polytheism.
God > Biblical teaching.
monotheism.
RELIGION > Judaism > Theology.
God > Biblical teaching
God (Judaism) > History of doctrines
Monotheism
Polytheism
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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