The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel 1st Edition by Benjamin D Sommer ISBN 0521518725 9780521518727

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ISBN 10: 0521518725 
ISBN 13: 9780521518727
Author: Benjamin D Sommer

Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in Kabbalah and the trinity in Christianity represent a late version of this theology. This book forces us to rethink the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, as this notion of divine fluidity is found in both polytheistic cultures (Babylonia, Assyria, Canaan) and monotheistic ones (biblical religion, Jewish mysticism, Christianity), whereas it is absent in some polytheistic cultures (classical Greece). The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue.

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel 1st Table of contents:

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

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