Reconsidering the concept of revolutionary monotheism

A new agenda for the study of the rise of monotheism / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Presenting and discussing deities in new kingdom and third intermediate period Egypt / John Baines -- Gods and scholars : mapping the pantheon in early Mesopotamia / Gonzalo Rubio -- The heavens and the gods in ancient...

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Veröffentlicht: Winona Lake, Ind. Eisenbrauns 2011
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Zusammenfassung:A new agenda for the study of the rise of monotheism / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Presenting and discussing deities in new kingdom and third intermediate period Egypt / John Baines -- Gods and scholars : mapping the pantheon in early Mesopotamia / Gonzalo Rubio -- The heavens and the gods in ancient Mesopotamia : the view from a polytheistic cosmology / Francesca Rochberg -- Divine agency and astralization of the gods in ancient Mesopotamia / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- How gods die, biblically and otherwise : a problem of cosmic restructuring / Peter Machinist -- God in translation : cross-cultural recognition of divinity in ancient Israel / Mark S. Smith -- The quest for "God" : monotheistic arguments in the priestly texts of the Hebrew Bible / Konrad Schmid -- King and Messiah as Son of God / John J. Collins -- Zarathustra : a revolutionary monotheist? / Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Proceedings of a conference held in Feb. 2007 at Princeton University. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Beschreibung:XII, 370 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
24 cm
ISBN:1575061996
1-57506-199-6
9781575061993
978-1-57506-199-3