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Reconsidering the concept of revolutionary monotheism [electronic resource] / edited by Beate Pongratz-Leisten.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 370 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9781575061993 (electronic bk.)
  • 1575061996 (electronic bk.)
  • 9781575066486 (electronic bk.)
  • 1575066483 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reconsidering the concept of revolutionary monotheism.DDC classification:
  • 211/.34 22
LOC classification:
  • BL221 .R43 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Proceedings of a conference held in Feb. 2007 at Princeton University.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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