God in Translation
by Smith, Mark S.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-06-28
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary
God in Translation offers a substantial, extraordinarily broad survey of ancient attitudes toward deities, from the Late Bronze Age through ancient Israel and into the New Testament.
Author Biography
Mark S. Smith is the Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New York University. He is also the author of The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. IX |
| Acknowledgements | p. XI |
| Abbreviations and Sigla | p. XIII |
| A Note on Transliteration and Citation | p. XIX |
| Timeline: Periods, Events and Writings | p. XXI |
| Introduction: The Subject of Translatability of Deities | p. 1 |
| The Rationale for this Study | p. 1 |
| The Plan of this Book | p. 15 |
| A Word about Academic Location | p. 23 |
| Empires and Their Deities: Translatability in the Late Bronze Age | p. 37 |
| Introduction to Late Bronze Age Translatability | p. 37 |
| Treaties and Letters | p. 51 |
| Concepts of Divine Translatability: Family, Shared Resources, Oneness | p. 76 |
| Myths, Ritual and Prayer | p. 21 |
| Translatability and National Gods in Ancient Israel | p. 91 |
| Claims for the Absence of Biblical Translatability | p. 91 |
| Evidence of Translatability in the Hebrew Bible | p. 99 |
| Translatability and National Gods | p. 119 |
| The Rejection of Translatability in Israel and the Impact of Mesopotamian Empires on Divinity | p. 131 |
| Rejecting Translatability in Ancient Israel | p. 131 |
| ôOne-Godö Worldviews in Mesopotamia and Israel and Their Lack of Translatability | p. 149 |
| Ugarit and Israel: Case Studies of Local Responses to Empires | p. 180 |
| ôProtecting Godö Against Translatability: Biblical Censorship in Post-Exilic Israel | p. 187 |
| Censorship Now and Then | p. 187 |
| Censorship in and for Israel: The Cases of Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and Genesis 14:22 | p. 193 |
| The Cultural Context of Biblical Censorship in the Post-Exilic Period | p. 216 |
| ôThe Beautiful Essence of All the Godsö: Translatability in the Greco-Roman World | p. 243 |
| Jan Assmann on Translatability in the Greco-Roman Period | p. 243 |
| Genres of Greco-Roman Translatability | p. 247 |
| The Cultural Contours of Greco-Roman Translatability | p. 260 |
| The Biblical God in the World: Jewish and Christian Translatability and Its Limits | p. 275 |
| Translations of God from Jewish to Non-Jewish Sources | p. 275 |
| Jewish Horizontal Translatability | p. 300 |
| The Christian Message: Lost in Translation? | p. 306 |
| Epilogue: Scholars of God, Then and Now | p. 323 |
| Jan Assmann: Contribution and Critique | p. 323 |
| Then and Now: Scholarship of God | p. 328 |
| Indexes | |
| Sources | p. 341 |
| Authors | p. 360 |
| Subjects | p. 370 |
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