TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schäfer,Peter
AU  - Brown,Allison
TI  - Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity 
SN  - 9780691181325
AV  - BM610 
U1  - 296.3/1109 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Judaism
KW  - God (Judaism)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Monotheism
KW  - Son of God (Judaism)
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Apocalypse
KW  - Baal
KW  - Babylonian Talmud
KW  - Babylonian exile
KW  - Bavli
KW  - Christian mysticism
KW  - Daniel Apocryphon
KW  - El
KW  - Gospels
KW  - Hekhalot
KW  - Jewish mysticism
KW  - Kabbalah
KW  - Logos
KW  - Messiah
KW  - Metatron
KW  - Midrash
KW  - New Testament scholarship
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Prayer of Joseph
KW  - Second Temple Judaism
KW  - Son of God
KW  - Talmud
KW  - Tetragrammaton
KW  - Torah
KW  - Vision of Daniel
KW  - YHWH
KW  - binitarian
KW  - book of Revelation
KW  - firstborn
KW  - fourth book of Ezra
KW  - history of the Bible
KW  - personified wisdom
KW  - religious history
KW  - self-glorification hymn
KW  - wisdom literature
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: One God? --; Part I. Second Temple Judaism --; 1. The Son of Man in the Vision of Daniel --; 2. The Personified Wisdom in the Wisdom Literature --; 3. The Divinized Human in the Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran --; 4. The Son of God and Son of the Most High in the Daniel Apocryphon from Qumran --; 5. The Son of Man-Enoch in the Similitudes of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch --; 6. The Son of Man-Messiah in the Fourth Book of Ezra --; 7. The Firstborn in the Prayer of Joseph --; 8. The Logos according to Philo of Alexandria --; Transition: From Pre-Christian to Post-Christian Judaism --; Part II. Rabbinic Judaism and Early Jewish Mysticism --; 9. The Son of Man in the Midrash --; 10. The Son of Man-Messiah David --; 11. From the Human Enoch to the Lesser God Metatron --; Conclusion: Two Gods --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism, showing how this idea was embraced by rabbis and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of the common era and casting Judaism's relationship with Christianity in an entirely different light.Drawing on an in-depth analysis of ancient sources that have received little attention until now, Peter Schäfer demonstrates how the Jews of the pre-Christian Second Temple period had various names for a second heavenly power-such as Son of Man, Son of the Most High, and Firstborn before All Creation. He traces the development of the concept from the Son of Man vision in the biblical book of Daniel to the Qumran literature, the Ethiopic book of Enoch, and the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria. After the destruction of the Second Temple, the picture changes drastically. While the early Christians of the New Testament took up the idea and developed it further, their Jewish contemporaries were divided. Most rejected the second god, but some-particularly the Jews of Babylonia and the writers of early Jewish mysticism-revived the ancient Jewish notion of two gods in heaven.Describing how early Christianity and certain strands of rabbinic Judaism competed for ownership of a second god to the creator, this boldly argued and elegantly written book radically transforms our understanding of Judeo-Christian monotheism
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691199894?locatt=mode:legacy
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