Moses among the Idols

Mediators of the Divine in the Ancient near East

By Amy L. Balogh

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Publish Date

2018

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Language

eng

Pages

185

Description:

In this book, Amy L. Balogh brings together comparative religion, Assyriology, and biblical studies to illuminate the status of the Hebrew Bible's most important figure-Moses. Through comparison with ancient Mesopotamian idols, she reads Moses as YHWH's idol, offering a new paradigm for understanding divine-human mediation in the ancient Near East.

subjects: Moses (biblical leader), Idols and images, Middle east, history, to 622, Biblical teaching, History, Mittler