The Invention of God

RÃ mer, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0674504976 / ISBN 13: 9780674504974

Editore: Harvard University Press, 2015

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<p>Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms—Yhwh, God, or Allah—by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE.<br><br>That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a surprise. But as Römer makes clear, a wealth of evidence allows us to piece together a reliable account of the origins and evolution of the god of Israel. Römer draws on a long tradition of historical, philological, and exegetical work and on recent discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy to locate the origins of Yhwh in the early Iron Age, when he emerged somewhere in Edom or in the northwest of the Arabian peninsula as a god of the wilderness and of storms and war. He became the sole god of Israel and Jerusalem in fits and starts as other gods, including the mother goddess Asherah, were gradually sidelined. But it was not until a major catastrophe—the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah—that Israelites came to worship Yhwh as the one god of all, creator of heaven and earth, who nevertheless proclaimed a special relationship with Judaism.<br><br>A masterpiece of detective work and exposition by one of the world’s leading experts on the Hebrew Bible, <i>The Invention of God</i> casts a clear light on profoundly important questions that are too rarely asked, let alone answered.</p>

Informazioni sull?autore: Thomas Römer is Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the College de France and Professor at the University of Lausanne.

Raymond Geuss is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He has taught widely in Germany and the United States, and has been an editor of the series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought since its inception. His previous books include The Idea of a Critical Theory (Cambridge, 1981, ISBN 0521 284228), Morality, Culture, and History (Cambridge, 1999, ISBN 0 521 635683), and Public Goods, Private Goods (Princeton, 2001). He has also published a collection of classical verse in his own English translations, Parrots, Poets, and Philosophers & Good Advice (London, 1999).

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Titolo: The Invention of God
Casa editrice: Harvard University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good