The Invention of God

Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas R mer seeks to answer these questions about the...
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Author: Thomas Römer
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The Invention of God by Römer, Thomas

The Invention of God

$124.68

The Invention of God

$124.68
Author: Thomas Römer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas R mer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms--Yhwh, God, or Allah--by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE.

That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a surprise. But as R mer makes clear, a wealth of evidence allows us to piece together a reliable account of the origins and evolution of the god of Israel. R mer draws on a long tradition of historical, philological, and exegetical work and on recent discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy to locate the origins of Yhwh in the early Iron Age, when he emerged somewhere in Edom or in the northwest of the Arabian peninsula as a god of the wilderness and of storms and war. He became the sole god of Israel and Jerusalem in fits and starts as other gods, including the mother goddess Asherah, were gradually sidelined. But it was not until a major catastrophe--the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah--that Israelites came to worship Yhwh as the one god of all, creator of heaven and earth, who nevertheless proclaimed a special relationship with Judaism.

A masterpiece of detective work and exposition by one of the world's leading experts on the Hebrew Bible, The Invention of God casts a clear light on profoundly important questions that are too rarely asked, let alone answered.

Author: Thomas Römer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 12/14/2015
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780674504974


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/11/2016
Choice 05/01/2016

About the Author
Geuss, Raymond: - Raymond Geuss is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His books include Changing the Subject and Reality and Its Dreams.Römer, Thomas: - Thomas Römer is Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the Collège de France and Professor at the University of Lausanne.

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