Schäfer, Two Gods in Heaven

NEWLY TRANSLATED BOOK FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS: Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity. Peter Schäfer. Translated [from German] by Allison Brown. A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheism.

ISBN: 9780691199894
Published: 03/03/2020

Contrary 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 and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of the common era and casting Judaism’s relationship with Christianity in an entirely different light.

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