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Titolo: | Only one God? : monotheism in ancient Israel and the veneration of the goddess Asherah / / Bob Becking [and three others] |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2001] |
©2001 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
Disciplina: | 296.3/11 |
Soggetto topico: | Monotheism - Palestine - History of doctrines |
Judaism - History - To 70 A.D | |
Asherah (Semitic deity) | |
Persona (resp. second.): | BeckingBob |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-222) and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 contradict the biblical ban on images. Was th |
Titolo autorizzato: | Only one God |
ISBN: | 1-283-19531-3 |
9786613195319 | |
0-567-23212-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910821692503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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