Reconsidering the concept of revolutionary monotheism  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Beate Pongratz-Leisten. 
 - Winona Lake, Ind. :  Eisenbrauns,  2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 370 p.) :  ill. 
<br/><br/> Proceedings of a conference held in Feb. 2007 at Princeton University. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781575061993 (electronic bk.) 1575061996 (electronic bk.) 9781575066486 (electronic bk.) 1575066483 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Monotheism.<br/>God.<br/>RELIGION / Theism
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL221  / .R43 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>211/.34