From Gods to God : The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies

by Baruch Halpern

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Forschungen zum Alten Testament

ISBN-10 3161499026

ISBN-13 9783161499029

Publisher Mohr Siebeck

Imprint Mohr Siebeck

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 6th, 2009

Print length 570 Pages

Weight 980 grams

Product Classification: Ancient history: to c 500 CE Religion: general Christian theology

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The birth of the West stems from the rejection of tradition. All our evidence for this influence comes from the Axial period, 800-400 BCE. Baruch Halpern explores the impact of changing cosmologies and social relations on cultural change in that era, especially from Mesopotamia to Israel and Greece, but extending across the Mediterranean, not least to Egypt and Italy. In this volume he shows how an explosion of international commerce and exchange, which can be understood as a Renaissance, led to the redefinition of selfhood in various cultures and to Reformation. The process inevitably precipitated an Enlightenment. This has happened over and over in human history and in academic or cultural fields. It is the basis of modernization, or Westernization, wherever it occurs, and whatever form it takes.

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