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Reconsidering the concept of revolutionary monotheism /

Reconsidering the concept of revolutionary monotheism / edited by Beate Pongratz-Leisten. - Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations -

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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Monotheism.
God.
Monothéisme.
Dieu.
monotheism.
RELIGION--Theism.
God
Monotheism


Congress
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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