No other gods: emergent monotheism in Israel
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Main Author: Gnuse, Robert Karl (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Sheffield, England Sheffield Academic Press ©1997
Series:Journal for the study of the Old Testament 241
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:This book emerged from a seminar paper given at Loyola University of New Orleans in 1985
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and indexes
New understandings of the Israelite settlement process -- Recent scholarship on the development of monotheism in ancient Israel -- Monotheism in ancient Israel's world -- History of monotheism in Israel -- Worldview of emergent monotheism among the Jews -- Ongoing tradition of emergent monotheism -- Hebrew Bible and process theology -- Punctuated equilibria as an evolutionary model for the social sciences and Biblical studies
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (392 pages)
ISBN:9780567374158
0567374157
1850756570
9781850756576

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