Two Gods in Heaven (eBook)

Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity

Peter Schafer (Autor)

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2020
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19989-4 (ISBN)

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A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism, showing how this idea was embraced by rabbis and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of the common era and casting Judaism's relationship with Christianity in an entirely different light.Drawing on an in-depth analysis of ancient sources that have received little attention until now, Peter Schafer demonstrates how the Jews of the pre-Christian Second Temple period had various names for a second heavenly power-such as Son of Man, Son of the Most High, and Firstborn before All Creation. He traces the development of the concept from the Son of Man vision in the biblical book of Daniel to the Qumran literature, the Ethiopic book of Enoch, and the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria. After the destruction of the Second Temple, the picture changes drastically. While the early Christians of the New Testament took up the idea and developed it further, their Jewish contemporaries were divided. Most rejected the second god, but some-particularly the Jews of Babylonia and the writers of early Jewish mysticism-revived the ancient Jewish notion of two gods in heaven.Describing how early Christianity and certain strands of rabbinic Judaism competed for ownership of a second god to the creator, this boldly argued and elegantly written book radically transforms our understanding of Judeo-Christian monotheism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2020
• Übersetzer: Allison Brown
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 11Q13 • 3 Enoch • Ancient Judaism (book) • ancient of days • Angel of the Lord • Angel of the Presence • Antiochus IV Epiphanes • Apocalypse • Apocryphon • Apotheosis • Baal • Babylonian Exile • Babylonian Talmud • Baraita • Bavli • Belial • Bible • binitarian • Book of Daniel • book of enoch • Book of Ezekiel • Book of Proverbs • Book of Revelation • Book of Wisdom • books of Samuel • Christian • Christianity • Christian Literature • christian mysticism • Christian theology • Christology • Church Fathers • Daniel 7 • Daniel Apocryphon • Daniel Boyarin • David • Davidic line • Dead Sea Scrolls • deity • Divinization (Christian) • Documentary Hypothesis • El • Elijah • Elohim • Ephrem the Syrian • Epistle to the Colossians • Epithet • Eschatology • Exegesis • Ezekiel • Firstborn • fourth book of Ezra • God • God Alone • God The Father • Gospels • Hagigah • Heavenly Host • Hebrew Bible • Hekhalot • Hekhalot literature • Heresy • history of the bible • Holy of Holies • Incarnation (Christianity) • israelites • Jewish Mysticism • Jews • Judaism • Kabbalah • Late Antiquity • Literature • Logos • Lord of the World • Manifestation of God • Mekhilta • Melchizedek • Merkabah mysticism • Messiah • Messiah in Judaism • Metatron • Michael (archangel) • Midrash • Monotheism • New Testament • New Testament scholarship • Old Testament • People of God • personified wisdom • Polemic • Prayer of Joseph • Psalms • Pseudepigrapha • Rabbi • Rabbi Ishmael • Rabbinic Judaism • rabbinic literature • Religion • Religious History • Richard Bauckham • Righteousness • Second Temple • Second Temple Judaism • Second Temple Period • self-glorification hymn • Septuagint • Servant of God • Seven Heavens • Shekhinah • Sky deity • Son of God • Talmud • Teacher of Righteousness • Tetragrammaton • Theology • Torah • tradition history • Trisagion • Vision of Daniel • Wisdom Literature • Worship • Yahweh • YHWH • Zechariah (Hebrew prophet)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19989-2 / 0691199892
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19989-4 / 9780691199894