The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel /
In this book, the author challenges the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, using a lost Near Eastern perception of gods as having more than one body and fluid and unbounded selves.
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- God's body and the Bible's interpreters
- Fluidity of divine embodiment and selfhood : Mesopotamia and Canaan
- The fluidity model in ancient Israel
- The rejection of the fluidity model in ancient Israel
- God's bodies and sacred space (1) : tent, ark, and temple
- God's bodies and sacred space (2) : difficult beginnings
- The perception of divinity in biblical tradition : implications and afterlife
- Appendix : monotheism and polytheism in ancient israel.