{"product_id":"reconsidering-the-concept-of-revolutionary-monotheism-9781575061993","title":"Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn February, 2007, a conference entitled “Reconsidering the Concept of ‘Revolutionary Monotheism’” was convened on the campus of Princeton University. The meeting was unique in that it brought together scholars who were engaged in various disciplines of research, and though all were involved in the geographical area of the ancient Near East, everyone brought a different expertise to the question of how to approach the concept of the divine. What followed, in the course of two days, was an intense debate regarding the issue stated in the title of the conference; the dialogue was productive, and the papers—which were reworked in the wake of the conference and in accord with the interaction among the participants—are useful perspectives on the vexing topic of monotheism and the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe papers in the this volume are presented by John Baines (gods in New Kingdom\/Third Intermediate period Egypt), Gonzalo Rubio (Mesopotamian pantheon), Francesca Rochberg (polytheistic cosmogony in Mesopotamia), Beate Pongratz-Leisten (astralization of gods in Mesopotamia), Peter Machinist (dying gods and cosmic restructuring), Mark S. Smith (cross-cultural recognition of divinity in Israel), Konrad Schmid (monotheism in the Priestly texts), John Collins (king and messiah as Son of God), and P. O. Skjærvø¸ (Zarathustra and monotheism).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New Agenda for the Study of the Rise of Monotheism\u003c\/i\u003e Beate Pongratz-Leisten\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePresenting and Discussing Deities in New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e John Baines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGods and Scholars: Mapping the Pantheon in Early Mesopotamia\u003c\/i\u003e Gonzalo Rubio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heavens and the Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia: The View from a Polytheistic Cosmology\u003c\/i\u003e Francesca Rochberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivine Agency and Astralization of the Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia\u003c\/i\u003e Beate Pongratz-Leisten\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Gods Die, Biblically and Otherwise: A Problem of Cosmic Restructuring\u003c\/i\u003e Peter Machinist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod in Translation: Cross-Cultural Recognition of Divinity in Ancient Israel\u003c\/i\u003e Mark S. Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quest for “God”: Monotheistic Arguments in the Priestly Texts of the Hebrew Bible\u003c\/i\u003e Konrad Schmid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing and Messiah as Son of God\u003c\/i\u003e John J. Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eZarathustra: A Revolutionary Monotheist?\u003c\/i\u003e Prods Oktor Skjærvø\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndexes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188734124375,"sku":"9781575061993","price":56.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reconsidering-the-concept-of-revolutionary-monotheism-9781575061993","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}