Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Sommer, Benjamin D., 1964-

Title The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel / Benjamin D. Sommer.

Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  296.311 So55b 2011    ---  Available
Description xv, 334 p. ; 23 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.
Note Originally published: 2009.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-303) and indexes.
Subject God (Judaism) -- History of doctrines.
Monotheism.
Polytheism.
God -- Biblical teaching.
ISBN 9781107422261 (pbk.)
1107422264 (pbk.)

 
    
Available items only