Two Gods in Heaven : : Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity / / Peter Schäfer.
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 an...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: One God?
- Part I. Second Temple Judaism
- 1. The Son of Man in the Vision of Daniel
- 2. The Personified Wisdom in the Wisdom Literature
- 3. The Divinized Human in the Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran
- 4. The Son of God and Son of the Most High in the Daniel Apocryphon from Qumran
- 5. The Son of Man-Enoch in the Similitudes of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch
- 6. The Son of Man-Messiah in the Fourth Book of Ezra
- 7. The Firstborn in the Prayer of Joseph
- 8. The Logos according to Philo of Alexandria
- Transition: From Pre-Christian to Post-Christian Judaism
- Part II. Rabbinic Judaism and Early Jewish Mysticism
- 9. The Son of Man in the Midrash
- 10. The Son of Man-Messiah David
- 11. From the Human Enoch to the Lesser God Metatron
- Conclusion: Two Gods
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index