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Author | : Mark S. Smith |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2002-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802839725 |
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There is still much disagreement over the origins and development of Israelite religion. Mark Smith sets himself the task of reconstructing the cult of Yahweh, the most important deity in Israel's early religion, and tracing the transformation of that deity into the sole god - the development of monotheism.
Author | : Mark S. Smith |
Publisher | : Harper San Francisco |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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In this history of the development of monotheism, the author explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheism with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional scholarly premise that Israel was fundamentally different in culture and religion from its Canaanite neighbors, he shows that the two cultures were fundamentally similar.
Author | : J. Edward Wright |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2002-03-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195348494 |
Download The Early History of Heaven Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.
Author | : Karen Armstrong |
Publisher | : Gramercy |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : 9780517223123 |
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A study of the deity of the world's three dominant monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In a dynamic interplay between religion and society's ever-changing beliefs, values, and traditions, human beings' ideas about God have been transformed. Ideas about God have been molded to apply to the spiritual needs of the people who worship him in a particular place and time. The author explores and analyzes the development and progression of the various perceptions of God from the days of Abraham to present times--Adapted from book jacket.
Author | : Mark S. Smith |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451413977 |
Download The Memoirs of God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This insightful work examines the variety of ways that collective memory, oral tradition, history, and history writing intersect. Integral to all this are the ways in which ancient Israel was shaped by the monarchy, the Babylonian exile, and the dispersions of Judeans and the ways in which Israel conceptualized and interacted with the divine-Yahweh as well as other deities.
Author | : Mark S. Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2003-11-06 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0195167686 |
Download The Origins of Biblical Monotheism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to the development of monotheism.
Author | : Theodore J. Lewis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1097 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190072547 |
Download The Origin and Character of God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introductory Matters -- The History of Scholarship on Ancient Israelite Religion : A Brief Sketch -- Methodology -- El Worship -- The Iconography of Divinity : El -- The Origin of Yahweh -- The Iconography of Divinity : Yahweh -- The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as Warrior and Family God -- The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as King and Yahweh as Judge -- Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as Holy.
Author | : Thomas Römer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674504976 |
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Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these enigmatic 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, in a masterpiece of detective work and exposition.
Author | : Daniel E. Fleming |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108835074 |
Download Yahweh before Israel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides a ground-breaking new interpretation with which to consider and contextualize the name Yahweh before its relationship with Israel.
Author | : Michael J. Stahl |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2021-03-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004447725 |
Download The “God of Israel” in History and Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The “God of Israel” in History and Tradition, Michael Stahl examines the historical and ideological significances of the formulaic title “god of Israel” (’elohe yisra’el) in the Hebrew Bible using critical theory on social power and identity.