Invention of God

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Römer is Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the Collège de France and Professor at the University of Lausanne. Raymond Geuss is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His books include Changing the Subject , Reality and Its Dreams , and Who Needs a World View? Klappentext Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions about the deity of the great monotheisms¿Yhwh, God, or Allah¿by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE, in a masterpiece of detective work and exposition. Zusammenfassung Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions about the deity of the great monotheisms—Yhwh, God, or Allah—by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE, in a masterpiece of detective work and exposition.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Geuss, Thomas Reomer, Thomas Roemer, Thomas Romer, Thomas Römer
• Assisted by: Raymond Geuss (Translation), Geuss Raymond (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780674504974
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50497-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Philosophy, History of Religion, Judaism, Nature & existence of God, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine