Polytheism and monotheism.-pt. II. Christianity
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher:
Published: 1878
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13:
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Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism
Author: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781575061993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of a conference held in Feb. 2007 at Princeton University.
Beliefs
Author: Jamie Cawley
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-12-12
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1784628980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible, objective understanding of what the major ‘beliefs’ are about. The major beliefs include: Polytheism, Judaism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Nationalism, Communism and Environmentalism. All have over 100 million followers and the full structure of faith-determined behavioural guidance.
God Against the Gods
Author: Jonathan Kirsch
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-25
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1440626588
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Lively… points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared." —Publishers Weekly "Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about the Bible and its world." —David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief of the Anchor Bible Project "Kirsch tackles the central issue bedeviling the world today - religious intolerance… A timely book, well-written and researched." —Leonard Shlain, author of The Alphabet and the Goddess and Sex, Time and Power "An intriguing read." —The Jerusalem Report "A timely tale about the importance of religious tolerance in today’s world." —San Francisco Chronicle "Kirsch is a fine storyteller with a flair for rendering ancient tales relevant and appealing." —The Washington Post
A Million and One Gods
Author: Page duBois
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-06-16
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0674728831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it persists, even in the West, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.
From Akhenaten to Moses
Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9774166310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses--a figure of history and a figure of tradition--symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one. The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.
Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9004438084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatthew V. Novenson, ed., Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity is a collection of state-of-the-art essays by leading scholars on views of God, Christ, and other divine beings in ancient Jewish, Christian, and classical texts.
The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel
Author: Benjamin D. Sommer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-06-29
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0521518725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSommer utilizes a recovered ancient perception of divinity as having more than one body, fluid and unbounded selves.
The Origins of Biblical Monotheism
Author: Mark S. Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-11-06
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0195167686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to the development of monotheism.
Moses and Monotheism
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Published: 2016-11-24
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 8898301790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.
