The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel / Benjamin D. Sommer.
- Sommer, Benjamin D., 1964-
- Date:
- 2009
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical description
xv, 334 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
Contents
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.