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The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

Paperback • 2011 • English • 1. edition

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

By Benjamin D. Sommer

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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 bibl...Show more

Philosophy of religion
Comparative religion
Interfaith relations

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ISBN

9781107422261

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

Format

Paperback

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