Sommer, Benjamin D., 1964-

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.

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--History of doctrines.--Biblical teaching.

God (Judaism) Monotheism. Polytheism. God