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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782258603321

Autore

Gnuse Robert Karl <1947->

Titolo

No other gods [[electronic resource] ] : emergent monotheism in Israel / / Robert Karl Gnuse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England, : Sheffield Academic Press, c1997

ISBN

1-281-81401-6

9786611814014

0-567-37415-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 241

Disciplina

221.9/5

Soggetti

Monotheism - Palestine - History of doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This book emerged from a seminar paper given at Loyola University of New Orleans in 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE ISRAELITE SETTLEMENT PROCESS; Chapter 2 RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MONOTHEISM IN ANCIENT ISRAEL; Chapter 3 MONOTHEISM IN ANCIENT ISRAEL'S WORLD; Chapter 4 HISTORY OF MONOTHEISM IN ISRAEL; Chapter 5 THE WORLDVIEW OF EMERGENT MONOTHEISM AMONG THE JEWS; Chapter 6 THE ONGOING TRADITION OF EMERGENT MONOTHEISM; Chapter 7 THE HEBREW BIBLE AND PROCESS THEOLOGY; Chapter 8 PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIA AS AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND BIBLICAL STUDIES; Conclusions; Bibliography

Index of ReferencesIndex of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first full-scale assessment of the theological, social and ideational implications of our new understandings of ancient Israel's social and religious development. Scholars now stress the gradual emergence of Israel out of the culture of ancient Palestine and the surrounding ancient Near East rather than contrast Israel with the ancient world. Our new paradigms stress the ongoing and unfinished nature of the monotheistic 'revolution', which is indeed still in process today. Gnuse takes a further bold step in setting the emergence of monotheism in a wider intellectual context: he arg