In the ancient Near East, when the gods detected gross impropriety in their ranks, they subjected their own to trial. When mortals suspect their gods of wrongdoing, do they have the right to put them on trial? What lies behind the human endeavor to impose moral standards of behavior on the gods? Is this effort an act of arrogance, as Kant suggested, or a means of keeping theological discourse honest? It is this question James Crenshaw seeks to address in this wide-ranging study of...
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780199881567 ● Publisher Oxford University Press ● Published 2005 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4063971 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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