volgadon Posted February 18, 2012 Posted February 18, 2012 Just came across an interesting, even exciting book published in 2008 by Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. Ancient Gods, Polytheism in Eretz Israel and Neighboring Countries from the Second Millennium BCE to the Islamic Period, M. Kister, J. Geiger, N. Na'aman, Sh. Shaked (eds.). So far it is in Hebrew only, but hopefully it will be translated into English to reach a wider audience. The studies deal with Mesoppotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, the Taanach stand, Olympic and Chtonic gods, ANE religions in classical literature, Stoics, syncretism, emperor worship in Rome, polytheism, henotheism and monotheism in the Bosphoran Kingdom, polytheism in Late Antiquity, and the Jahiliyya.
Robert F. Smith Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) Just came across an interesting, even exciting book published in 2008 by Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. Ancient Gods, Polytheism in Eretz Israel and Neighboring Countries from the Second Millennium BCE to the Islamic Period, M. Kister, J. Geiger, N. Na'aman, Sh. Shaked (eds.). So far it is in Hebrew only, but hopefully it will be translated into English to reach a wider audience. The studies deal with Mesoppotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, the Taanach stand, Olympic and Chtonic gods, ANE religions in classical literature, Stoics, syncretism, emperor worship in Rome, polytheism, henotheism and monotheism in the Bosphoran Kingdom, polytheism in Late Antiquity, and the Jahiliyya.Thanks for the notice, Volgadon.Add these to your bibliography:Heiser, Michael S. 2008 “Monotheism, Polytheism, Monolatry, or Henotheism? Toward an Assessment of Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible,” Bulletin of Biblical Research (2008). Online at http://digitalcommon...20polytheism%22Krebernik, Manfred, and Jürgen van Oorschot, eds. 2004 Polytheismus und Monotheismus in den Religionen des Vorderen Orients, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 298 (Ugarit-Verlag, 2004).Lang, Bernhard. 2002 The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2002). A God whose influence extends to all aspects of life, and who reflects the experience of ancient Near Eastern polytheism. This book follows the analysis of folklorist and Indo-European religion expert Georges Dumézil, who believed that Israel’s God, like the god of the Indo-Europeans, was a tripartite god of Wisdom, War, and Life. See review in Bible Review June 2003, 44,46,48. Edited February 20, 2012 by Robert F. Smith
smac97 Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 And how is monotheism doing?Well, you know. It's either one thing and another.-Smac 1
maklelan Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) Since we're doing bibs, here's an early version of my bibliography for my thesis on monotheism. It's now several times larger:Albright, William Foxwell. From the Stone Age to Christianity: Monotheism and the Historical Process. Second Edition; Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957.Barr, James. The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective. Minneapolis, Min.: Augsburg Press, 1999.Baumann, Gerlinde. “Trendy Monotheism? Ancient Near Eastern Models and their Value in Elucidating ‘Monotheism’ in Ancient Israel.” Old Testament Essays 19 (2006): 9–25.Becking, Bob, et al. (eds.). Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah. Edited by Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo C. A. Korpel, and Karel J. H. Vriezen; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.Binger, Tilde. Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.Blenkinsopp, Joseph. “An Assessment of the Alleged Pre-Exilic Date of the Priestly Material in the Pentateuch.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 108.4 (1996): 495–518.Boyd-Taylor, Cameron. “In a Mirror Dimly—Reading the Septuagint as a Document of Its Times.” Pages 15–32 in Septuagint Research: Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures. Wolfgang Kraus and R. Glenn Wooden, eds.; Septuagint and Cognate Studies 53; Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.Burnett, Joel S. A Reassessment of Biblical Elohim. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 183; Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.Chalmers, R. Scott. “Who is the Real El? A Reconstruction of the Prophet’s Polemic in Hosea 12:5a.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 68.4 (2006): 611–30.Cho, Sang Youl. Lesser Deities in the Ugaritic Texts and the Hebrew Bible: A Comparative Study of Their Nature and Roles. Deities and Angels of the Ancient World 2; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.Clements, Ronald E. “Monotheism and the God of Many Names.” Pages 47–59 in The God of Israel. Robert P. Gordon, ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Clifford, Hywel. “Deutero-Isaiah and Monotheism.” Pages 267–89 in Prophecy and Prophets: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 531; Edited by John Day; New York: T&T Clark, 2010.Collins, John J. “Is a Critical Biblical Theology Possible?” Pages 1–18 in The Hebrew Bible and Its Interpreters. W. H. Propp, Baruch Halpern, and David Noel Freedman, eds.; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1990.-----------. “Jewish Monotheism and Christian Theology.” Pages 81–96 in Aspects of Monotheism: How God is One. Edited by Hershel Shanks and Jack Meinhardt; Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1997.-----------. “Powers in Heaven: God, Gods, and Angels in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Pages 9–28 in Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 2000.-----------. The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005.Crocker, Robert. Henry More, 1614–1687: A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist. International Archive of the History of Ideas 185; Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973.Day, John. Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.De Moor, Johann C. The Rise of Yahwism: The Roots of Israelite Monotheism, Second and Revised Edition. Leuven: Peeters, 1997.Dever, William G. “Iron Age Epigraphic Material from the Area of Khirbet El-Kôm.” Hebrew Union College Annual 40-41 (1970): 139–204.-----------. “Asherah, Consort of Yahweh? New Evidence from Kuntillet ‘Ajrûd.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 255 (1984): 21–37.-----------. “Folk Religion in Early Israel: Did Yahweh Have a Consort?” Pages 27–56 in Aspects of Monotheism: How God is One. Edited by Hershel Shanks and Jack Meinhardt; Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1997.Dijkstra, Meindert. “I Have Blessed You by Yhwh of Samaria and His Asherah: Texts with Religious Elements from the Soil Archive of Ancient Israel.” Pages 17–44 in Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah. Edited by Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo C. A. Korpel, and Karel J. H. Vriezen; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.Doldán, Felipe L. “Monoteísmo De Israel y Religiones En El Antiguo Testamento.” Teología 71 (1998): 11–36.Dunn, James D. G. Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence. London: SPCK, 2010.Garr, W. Randall. In His Own Image and Likeness: Humanity, Divinity, and Monotheism. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 15; Leiden: Brill, 2003.Gieschen, Charles A. Angelomorphic Christology: Antecedents and Early Evidence. Leiden: Brill, 1998.Gnuse, Robert Karl. No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 241; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.-----------. “The Emergence of Monotheism in Ancient Israel: A Survey of Recent Scholarship,” Religion 29 (1999): 315–36.Haag, Ernst, et al., eds. Gott der Einzige: zur Entstehung des Monotheismus in Israel. Questiones disputatae 104; Freiburg: Herder, 1985.Hadley, Judith M. “The De-deification of Deities in Deuteronomy.” Pages 157–74 in The God of Israel. Robert P. Gordon, ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Hafemann, Scott J., ed. Biblical Theology: Retrospect and Prospect. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2002.Halpern, Baruch. “‘Brisker Pipes than Poetry’: The Development of Israelite Monotheism.” Pages 77–115 in Judaic Perspectives on Ancient Israel. Edited by Jacob Neusner, et al.; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.-----------. From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 63; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.Handy, Lowell K. “Sounds, Words and Meanings in Psalm 82,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 47.1 (1990): 51–66.-----------. Among the Host of Heaven: The Syro-Palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1994.-----------. “The Appearance of Pantheon in Judah.” Pages 27–44 in The Triumph of Elohim: From Yahwisms to Judaisms. Edited by Diana V. Edelman; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995.Haran, Mehahem “Behind the Scenes of History: Determining the Date of the Priestly Source.” Journal of Biblical Literature 100. 3 (1981): 321–33.Hayman, Peter. “Monotheism—A Misused Word in Jewish Studies?” Journal of Jewish Studies 42.1 (1991): 1–15.Heiser, Michael S. “Deuteronomy 32:8 and the Sons of God,” Bibliotheca Sacra 158.629 (2001): 52–74.-----------. “The Divine Council in Late Canonical and Non-Canonical Second Temple Jewish Literature.” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2004.-----------. “Are Yahweh and El Distinct Deities in Deut. 32:8–9 and Psalm 82?” Hiphil 3 [http://www.see-j.net/hiphil] (2006): 3–9.-----------. “Does Deuteronomy 32:17 Assume or Deny the Reality of Other Gods?” Bible Translator 59.3 (2008): 137–45.-----------. “Monotheism, Polytheism, Monolatry, or Henotheism? Toward an Assessment of Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible,” Bulletin of Biblical Research 18.1 (2008): 1–30.Himbaza, Innocent. “Dt 32,8, une correction tardive des scribes Essai d’interprétation et de datation.” Biblica 83.4 (2002): 527–48.Hurtado, Larry. “New Testament Christology: A Critique of Bousset‘s Influence.” Theological Studies 40 (1979): 306–17.-----------. One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism, Second Edition. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2003.-----------. “Monotheism, Principal Angels, and the Background of Christology.” In the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2010.Hurvitz, Avi. “Dating the Priestly Source in Light of the Historical Study of Biblical Hebrew. A Century after Wellhausen.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 100.1 (1988): 88–100.Jones, Tod E., ed. The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction. Translations by Sara E. Phang; Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005.Joosten, Jan. “Une théologie de la septante? Réflexions méthodologiques sur l‘interpétation de la version grecque.” Revue de théologie et de philosophie 132.1 (2000): 31–46.-----------. “A Note on the Text of Deuteronomy xxxii 8.” Vetus Testamentum 57.4 (2007): 548–55.Kaminsky, Joel, and Anne Stewart. “God of All the World: Universalism and Developing Monotheism in Isaiah 40–66.” Harvard Theological Review 99.2 (2006): 139–63.Kaufmann, Yehezkel. The Religion of Israel: From Its Beginnings the Babylonian Exile. Translated by Moshe Greenberg; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.Keel, Othmar, and Christoph Uehlinger. Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel. Thomas. A. Trapp, trans.; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998.Koch, Klaus. “Ugaritic Polytheism and Hebrew Monotheism in Isaiah 40–55.” Pages 205–45 in The God of Israel. Robert P. Gordon, ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Kuenen, A. The Prophets and Prophecy in Israel. Translated by A. Milroy; London, 1877 (1st Ed. 1875).Lang, Bernhard. Der einzige Gott: Die Geburt des Monotheismus. München: Kösel, 1981.Lemaire, André. “Les inscriptions de Khirbet El-Qom et l'Ashérah de Yhwh.” Revue biblique 84 (1977): 597–608.-----------. The Birth of Monotheism: The Rise and Disappearance of Yahwism. Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2007.MacDonald, Nathan. “Aniconism in the Old Testament.” Pages 20–37 in The God of Israel. Robert P. Gordon, ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., 2007.-----------. Deuteronomy and the Meaning of ‘Monotheism.’ Forschungen Zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe 1; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.Machinist, Peter. “How Gods Die, Biblically and Otherwise: A Problem of Cosmic Restructuring.” Pages 189–240 in Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism. Edited by Beate Pongratz-Leisten; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2011.Mastin, B. A. “Yahweh’s Asherah, Inclusive Monotheism and the Question of Dating.” Pages 326–51 in In Search of Pre-exilic Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar. Edited by John Day; London: T&T Clark International, 2004.McCarter, P. Kyle, Jr. “The Religious Reforms of Hezekiah and Josiah.” Pages 57–80 in Aspects of Monotheism: How God is One, ed. Hershel Shanks and Jack Meinhardt. Washington DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1997.Meek, Theophile J. “Monotheism and the Religion of Israel.” Journal of Biblical Literature 61.1 (1942): 21–43.Meier, Samuel A. “Angel I מלאך.” Pages 81–90 in Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Second Edition, Extensively Revised. Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, and Pieter W. van der Horst, eds.; Leiden: Brill, 1999.-----------. “Angel of Yahweh מלאך יהוה.” Pages 96–108 in Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Second Edition, Extensively Revised. Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, and Pieter W. van der Horst, eds.; Leiden: Brill, 1999.Miller, Robert D., II. Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel. Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2011.Nikiprowetsky, V. “Ethical Monotheism.” Daedalus 104.2 (1975): 69–89.Oeming, Manfred and Konrad Schmid (eds.). Der eine Gott und die Götter: Polytheismus und Monotheismus im antiken Israel. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2003.Olyan, Saul M. A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum 36; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1993.Oosting, Reinoud. “The Counsellors of the Lord in Isaiah 40–55: A Proposal to Understand their Role in the Literary Composition.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32.3 (2008): 353–82.Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. 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London: T&T Clark, 2001.Rösel, Martin. “Theologie der Griechischen Bible zur Wiedergabe der Gottesaussagen im LXX-Pentateuch.” Vetus Testamentum 48.1 (1998): 49–62.-----------. “Towards a ‘Theology of the Septuagint.’” Pages 239–52 in Septuagint Research: Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures. Wolfgang Kraus and R. Glenn Wooden, eds.; Septuagint and Cognate Studies 53; Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.Rowley, H. H. “Moses and Monotheism.” Pages 35–66 in From Moses to Qumran: Studies in the Old Testament. New York: Association Press, 1963.Schneider, Thomas. “The First Documented Occurrence of the God Yahweh? (Book of the Dead Princeton ‘Roll 5’).” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 7.2 (2008): 113–20.Segal, Alan F. Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism. Leiden: Brill, 1997.Smith, Jonathan Z. Drudgery Divine: On The Comparisons of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity. 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