The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel By Benjamin D. Sommer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009-06-29 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 0521518725 | PDF | 1.8 MB
In The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, Benjamin D. Sommer investigates the notion of a deity's body and self in ancient Israel, Canaan, and Mesopotamia. He uncovers a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which an essential difference between gods and humans was that gods had more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves…