The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

In The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, Benjamin D. Sommer investigates the notion...
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The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel by Sommer, Benjamin D.

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

$284.76

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

$284.76
Author: Benjamin D. Sommer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, Benjamin D. Sommer investigates the notion of a deity's body and self in ancient Israel, Canaan, and Mesopotamia. He uncovers a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which an essential difference between gods and humans was that gods had 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.

Author: Benjamin D. Sommer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/29/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.30w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780521518727


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2010

About the Author
Sommer, Benjamin D.: - Benjamin D. Sommer is Professor in the Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

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