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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806139203321

Titolo

Reconsidering the concept of revolutionary monotheism / / edited by Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winona Lake, IN, : Eisenbrauns, 2011

ISBN

1-57506-648-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Pongratz-LeistenBeate

Disciplina

211/.34

Soggetti

Monotheism

God

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of a conference held in Feb. 2007 at Princeton University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.