The origin and character of God: ancient Israelite religion through the lens of divinity
Cover -- The Origin and Character of God -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introductory Matters -- 2. The History of Scholarship on Ancient Israelite Religion: A Brief Sketch -- 3. Methodology -- 4. El Worship -- 5. The Iconography of Divinity: El -- Se...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press USA- OSO
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Lewis, Theodore J., 1956-, The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity] (2022) (Ego, Beate, 1958 -)
[Rezension von: Lewis, Theodore J., 1956-, The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity] (2022) (Becking, Bob, 1951 -) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Israel (Antiquity)
/ Religion
B Early Judaism / Religiosity B Israel / Divinity / Religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Palestine
Religious life and customs
B Palestine Religion History B Electronic books B God (Judaism) B Judaism History To 70 A.D |
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| Summary: | Cover -- The Origin and Character of God -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introductory Matters -- 2. The History of Scholarship on Ancient Israelite Religion: A Brief Sketch -- 3. Methodology -- 4. El Worship -- 5. The Iconography of Divinity: El -- Section I: Methodology and Iconography -- Section II: Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and Divine Images -- Section III: The Iconography of Ugaritic ʾIlu -- Section IV: The Iconography of Israelite El -- 6. The Origin of Yahweh -- Section I: The Meaning and Revelation of the Name Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible -- Section II: The Name Yahweh in Extra-Biblical and Epigraphic Sources -- Section III: The Geographic Origins of Yahwistic Traditions and the Debate Concerning Northern (Canaanite) Versus Southern (Midianite) Origins -- 7. The Iconography of Divinity: Yahweh -- Section I: The Iconography of Yahweh: Anthropomorphic and Theriomorphic Traditions -- Section II: The Iconography of Yahweh: Aniconic and Abstract Traditions -- 8. The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh -- Part One: Yahweh as Warrior and Family God -- Section I: Yahweh as Divine Warrior -- Section II: Yahweh the Compassionate and Family Religion -- 9. The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh -- Part Two: Yahweh as King and Yahweh as Judge -- Section I: Yahweh as King -- Section II: Yahweh as Judge -- 10. The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh -- Part Three: Yahweh as the Holy One -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Subject Index -- Citation Index. "Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In the Hebrew Bible, God is characterized variously as militant, beneficent, inscrutable, loving, and judicious. Who is this divinity that has been represented as masculine and feminine, mythic and real, transcendent and intimate? The Origin and Character of God is Theodore J. Lewis's monumental study of the vast subject that is the God of Israel. In it, he explores questions of historical origin, how God was characterized in literature, and how he was represented in archaeology and iconography. He also brings us into the lived reality of religious experience. Using the window of divinity to peer into the varieties of religious experience in ancient Israel, Lewis explores the royal use of religion for power, prestige, and control; the intimacy of family and household religion; priestly prerogatives and cultic status; prophetic challenges to injustice; and the pondering of theodicy by poetic sages. A volume that is encyclopedic in scope but accessible in tone, The Origin and Character of God is an essential addition to the growing scholarship of one of humanity's most enduring concepts"-- |
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| ISBN: | 0190072563 |