Benjamin D. Sommer (Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Language

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel uncovers a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity, according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Sommer's book has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781107422261
• ISBN-10: 1107422264
• Artikelnr.: 33130073

Autorenporträt

Benjamin D. Sommer is Professor in the Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: God's body and the Bible's interpreters
2. Fluidity of divine embodiment and selfhood: Mesopotamia and Canaan
3. The fluidity model in ancient Israel
4. The rejection of the fluidity model in ancient Israel
5. God's bodies and sacred space (1): tent, ark, and temple
6. God's bodies and sacred space (2): difficult beginnings
7. The perception of divinity in Biblical tradition: implications and afterlife.