The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel [electronic resource] /
Benjamin D. Sommer.
- Cambridge [U.K.] ; Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- xv, 334 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm.
- ACLS Fellows' publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
God's body and the Bible's interpreters -- Fluidity of divine embodiment and selfhood : Mesopotamia and Canaan -- The fluidity model in ancient Israel -- The rejection of the fluidity model in ancient Israel -- God's bodies and sacred space (1) : tent, ark, and temple -- God's bodies and sacred space (2) : difficult beginnings -- The perception of divinity in biblical tradition : implications and afterlife -- Appendix : monotheism and polytheism in ancient israel.