The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

by Benjamin D. Sommer

Book Overview

In The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, Benjamin D. Sommer investigates the notion of a deity's body and self in ancient Israel, Canaan, and Mesopotamia. He uncovers a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which an essential difference between gods and humans was that gods had more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107422264
• ISBN13: 9781107422261
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"