Breaking Monotheism - Yehud and the Material Formation of Monotheistic Identity

Zusatztext Cataldo's interdisciplinary effort is stimulating and potentially opens up new avenues of approach for future work. This book will be most fruitfully enjoyed by those with extensive knowledge of the contours of the monotheism question! be they graduate or postgraduate students! as well as teachers and professors in Biblical Studies! history! or sociology departments of schools with or without statements of faith! Jewish! Christian or otherwise ? Cataldo's informed! nuanced reading of monotheism's patterns of development leaves one with much to think about! or perhaps! rethink. Informationen zum Autor Jeremiah Cataldo is Associate Professor of History in the Frederik Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University, USA. This work offers a social-scientific analysis of Yehud and uses that analysis to construct a model through which to analyze later monotheistic religious developments. Zusammenfassung This work offers a social-scientific analysis of Yehud and uses that analysis to construct a model through which to analyze later monotheistic religious developments. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: What is meant bymonotheism?Chapter 2: How monotheismcreates a new normative order in support of its own authorityChapter 3: Socialization andconflict as forces productive of identityChapter 4: Divine law as adominant discourse of the monotheistic selfChapter 5: Clarifying land asthe arena for restorationChapter 6: The necessity of an"other" for monotheistic identityChapter 7: The monotheisticbody within view: understanding the parameters of the modelBibliography

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This work offers a social-scientific analysis of Yehud and uses that analysis to construct a model through which to analyze later monotheistic religious developments.

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• Authors: Jeremiah W Cataldo, Jeremiah W. Cataldo
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2014
• EAN: 9780567402172
• ISBN: 978-0-567-40217-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Archaeology by period / region, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Archaeology, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics