Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity

by Peter Schäfer

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheism

Contrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism, showing how this idea was embraced by rabbis and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of the common era and casting Judaism's relationship with Christianity in an entirely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691181322
• ISBN13: 9780691181325
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"