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UNINA9910461069903321 |
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Titolo |
Only one God? : monotheism in ancient Israel and the veneration of the goddess Asherah / / Bob Becking [and three others] |
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London ; ; New York : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2001] |
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©2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-19531-3 |
9786613195319 |
0-567-23212-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Collana |
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The biblical seminar ; ; 77 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Monotheism - Palestine - History of doctrines |
Judaism - History - To 70 A.D |
Asherah (Semitic deity) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-222) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; I have Blessed you by YHWH of Samaria and his Asherah: Texts with Religious Elements from the Soil Archive of Ancient Israel; Archaeological Traces of Cult in Ancient Israel; El, the God of Israel-Israel, the People of YHWH: On the Origins of Ancient Israelite Yahwism; Asherah outside Israel; The Gods, in Whom They Trusted ... Assyrian Evidence for Iconic Polytheism in Ancient Israel?; Women and Religion in the Old Testament; Only One God: On Possible Implications for Biblical Theology; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The view of ancient Israelite religion as monotheistic has long been traditional in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, religions that have elaborated in their own way the biblical image of a single male deity. But recent archaeological findings of texts and images from the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their neighbourhood offer a quite different impression. Two issues in particular raised by these are the existence of a female consort, Asherah, and the implication for monotheism; and the proliferation of pictorial representations that may |
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