The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sommer, Benjamin D., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Colección:ACLS Fellows' publications.
Temas:
God (Judaism) > History of doctrines.
Monotheism.
Polytheism.
God > Biblical teaching.
Dieu (Judaïsme) > Histoire des doctrines.
Monothéisme.
Polythéisme.
Dieu > Enseignement biblique.
monotheism.
RELIGION > Judaism > Theology.
God > Biblical teaching
God (Judaism) > History of doctrines
Monotheism
Polytheism
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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