Divine Doppelgängers

Divine Doppelgängers

Author: Collin Cornell

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 164602091X

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The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him—but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH’s ancient look-alikes, providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about this challenge. Sooner or later, whether in a religion class or a seminary course, students bump up against the fact that God—the biblical God—was one among other, comparable gods. The ancient world was full of gods, including great gods of conquering empires, dynastic gods of petty kingdoms, goddesses of fertility, and personal spirit guardians. And in various ways, these gods look like the biblical God. Like the God of the Bible, they, too, controlled the fates of nations, chose kings, bestowed fecundity and blessing, and cared for their individual human charges. They spoke and acted. They experienced wrath and delight. They inspired praise. All of this leaves Jews and Christians in a bind: how can they confess that the God named YHWH was (and is) the true and living God, in view of this God’s profound similarities to all these others? The essays in this volume address the theological challenge these parallels create, providing reflections on how Jews and Christians can keep faith in YHWH as God while acknowledging the reality of YHWH’s divine doppelgängers. It will be welcomed by undergraduates studying religion; seminarians and graduate students of Bible, theology, and the ancient world; and adult education classes.


Divine Doppelgängers

Divine Doppelgängers

Author: Collin Cornell

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1646020936

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The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him—but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH’s ancient look-alikes, providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about this challenge. Sooner or later, whether in a religion class or a seminary course, students bump up against the fact that God—the biblical God—was one among other, comparable gods. The ancient world was full of gods, including great gods of conquering empires, dynastic gods of petty kingdoms, goddesses of fertility, and personal spirit guardians. And in various ways, these gods look like the biblical God. Like the God of the Bible, they, too, controlled the fates of nations, chose kings, bestowed fecundity and blessing, and cared for their individual human charges. They spoke and acted. They experienced wrath and delight. They inspired praise. All of this leaves Jews and Christians in a bind: how can they confess that the God named YHWH was (and is) the true and living God, in view of this God’s profound similarities to all these others? The essays in this volume address the theological challenge these parallels create, providing reflections on how Jews and Christians can keep faith in YHWH as God while acknowledging the reality of YHWH’s divine doppelgängers. It will be welcomed by undergraduates studying religion; seminarians and graduate students of Bible, theology, and the ancient world; and adult education classes.


Divine Doppelgängers

Divine Doppelgängers

Author: Collin Cornell

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781575067445

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A collection of essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about the challenge of similarities between YHWH and other ancient gods.


The Book of Doppelgangers

The Book of Doppelgangers

Author: Robert Sterling

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1592243711

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Eight outre tales of the doubly weird by J. Sheridan LeFanu, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, Hans Christian Andersen, Henry James, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. . . . The face in the mirror is yours, but ever so slightly different. A shadow haunts your house, but it walks in places you've never gone. You grew up with a boy who had your face and your name, except he always did everything right, while you never could. Evil twins, double images: these are the tales of the Doppelganger.


Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010

Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010

Author: Mary D. Edwards

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-05-29

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1476637962

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The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.


Heavenly Wasteland Immortal Palace

Heavenly Wasteland Immortal Palace

Author: Qi KaiDeSheng

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 1047

ISBN-13: 1647364000

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The Myriad Domain's great world was vast and endless, with many secret realms, planes, and worlds attached to it. Here, there were many lower realm kingdoms with powers that were like the stars, middle dukedoms with powers that weren't ordinary, upper realm kingdoms with legacies that hadn't declined in several thousand years, and the Royal Court that was recognized by the heavens and earth, the strongest and strongest in the Foreign Lands. Qin Hengtian brought the Creation Immortal Court system to summon many ancient Chinese civil and martial officials and martial arts novels ...


Bedeviled

Bedeviled

Author: Dunja Rašić

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2024-03-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1438496907

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Ghouls, ifrits, and a panoply of other jinn have long haunted Muslim cultures and societies. These also include jinn doppelgangers (qarīn, pl. quranāʾ), the little-studied and much-feared denizens of the hearts and blood of humans. This book seeks out jinn doppelgangers in the Islamic normative tradition, philosophy, folklore, and Sufi literature, with special emphasis on Akbarian Sufism. Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) wrote on jinn in substantial detail, uncovering the physiognomy, culture, and behavior of this unseen species. Akbarians believed that the good God assigned each human with an evil doppelganger. Ibn ʿArabī’s reasoning as to why this was the case mirrors his attempts to expound the problem of evil in Islamic religious philosophy. No other Sufi, Ibn ʿArabī claimed, ever managed to get to the heart of this matter before him. As well as offering the reader knowledge and safety from evil, Ibn ʿArabī’s writings on jinnealogy tackle the even larger issues of spiritual ascension, predestination, and the human relationship to the Divine.


The Doppelganger Omnibus

The Doppelganger Omnibus

Author: Marie Brennan

Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

Published: 2018-09-12

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 1625673892

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For centuries, the witches of Starfall have served the people of the fourteen domains while keeping their own secrets close. No one outside their ranks knows their power comes from a ritual that divides each newborn daughter in two: the witch, infused with magic, and the doppelganger, a soulless shell that is soon destroyed. Not all of the doppelgangers are dead, though, and their battle to survive will plunge Starfall into crisis. So long as her doppelganger lives, a witch cannot control her magic. But there are secrets even the witches do not know, and the doppelgangers hold power of their own . . . This omnibus includes the novels from the novel duology Warrior and Witch, as well as the prequel novella “Dancing the Warrior.”