Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin D. Sommer is Professor in the Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Klappentext Sommer utilizes a recovered ancient perception of divinity as having more than one body! fluid and unbounded selves. Zusammenfassung The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel uncovers a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity! according to which a god has more than one body and fluid! unbounded selves. Sommer's book has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin D. Sommer, Benjamin D. (Professor of Bible and Ancien Sommer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521518727
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51872-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works