The invention of God / Thomas Römer ; translated by Raymond Geuss.
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. -- Provided by publish...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015. ©2015. |
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| Summary: | 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. -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674504976 (alk. paper) 9780674504974 (alk. paper) |
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