Theodore J. Lewis (Blu Blum-Iwry Professor of Near Eastern Studies

Broschiertes Buch

The Origin and Character of God

Beschreibung

Using the window of divinity to peer into the varieties of religious experience in ancient Israel, The Origin and Character of God is a comprehensive reference work that explores the royal use of religion for power, prestige, and control; the intimacy of family and household religion; priestly prerogatives and cultic status; prophetic challenges to injustice; and the pondering of theodicy by poetic sages.

Autor

Theodore J. Lewis (PhD Harvard University) is the Blum-Iwry Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Origin and Character of God: The Religion of Ancient Israel through the Lens of Divinity (Oxford University Press), Cults of the Dead in Ancient Israel and Ugarit (Harvard Semitic Monographs), and co-author of Ugaritic Narrative Poetry (SBL Press). He is General Editor of the multi-volume Writings from the Ancient World translation series and the co-editor with Gary Beckman of Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion. He is former editor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Hebrew Annual Review. His research has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Lewis's multidisciplinary The Origin and Character of God has received the Frank Moore Cross Award from the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) for "the most substantial volume related to the history and/or religion of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean," the 2021 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion, and the 2021 Biblical Archaeology Society Biennial Publication Award for the Best Book Relating to the Hebrew Bible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 1096
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 57mm
• Gewicht: 1522g
• ISBN-13: 9780197687543
• ISBN-10: 0197687547
• Artikelnr.: 66741214