This compendium examines the origins of the God Yahweh, his place in the Syrian-Palestinian and Northern Arabian pantheon during the bronze and iron ages, and the beginnings of the cultic veneration of Yahweh. Contributors analyze the epigraphic and archeological evidence, apply…
In der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft wird derzeit die Frage nach der lokalen Herkunft des Gottes Yahwe, nach seiner typologischer Einordnung in das Pantheon Syriens, Israels/Palästinas und Nordarabiens in der späten Bronzezeit und frühen Eisenzeit sowie nach den Anfängen der k…
"In this groundbreaking book accessible to laypeople and scholars alike André Lemaire, a world-renowned expert on the ancient world, explores the development of perhaps the most important idea in the history of humankind: the concept of a single, universal God. Lemaire traces th…
In this book you will discover anew one of the most beloved passages of Scripture--and the Shepherd who is more than enough to meet all your needs. No matter how things appear, your Good Shepherd is constantly at work on your behalf, and you can rely fully on His goodness and me…
The role and place of metaphor in biblical language keeps attracting scholarly interest. Of all the books of the Bible, the Psalms provide the richest cache of metaphors for God. The Psalter is a cornucopia of metaphor.
Introduction /Yoram Hazony and Dru Johnson -- Challenging God's Perfection -- Is God “Perfect Being”? /Yoram Hazony -- God the Walker /Berel Dov Lerner -- The Living God: on the Perfection of the Imperfect /James A. Diamond -- In Defense of God's Perfection -- The Personal God o…
Philosophers have often described theism as the belief in the existence of a "perfect being"--a being that is said to possess all possible perfections, so that it is all-powerful, all-knowing, immutable, perfectly good, perfectly simple, and necessarily existent, among other qua…
