https://dailyhistory.org/index.php?title=History_of_God_Top_Ten_Booklist&feed=atom&action=historyHistory of God Top Ten Booklist - Revision history2024-03-28T10:14:54ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://dailyhistory.org/index.php?title=History_of_God_Top_Ten_Booklist&diff=5043&oldid=prevAdmin at 22:03, 7 December 20162016-12-07T22:03:19Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Smith, Mark S. 2002. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080283972X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080283972X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e18df244ebafba6c3c09b25951123f7d The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel]</i>. 2nd ed. The Biblical Resource Series. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.:  This book provides a detailed analysis on the early history of Judaism as it developed in ancient Judah and Israel. The book discusses the surrounding cultures and states that developed along these two states, explaining how cultural influence and regional politics begin to shape the idea of God as it emerged.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Smith, Mark S. 2002. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080283972X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080283972X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e18df244ebafba6c3c09b25951123f7d The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel]</i>. 2nd ed. The Biblical Resource Series. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.:  This book provides a detailed analysis on the early history of Judaism as it developed in ancient Judah and Israel. The book discusses the surrounding cultures and states that developed along these two states, explaining how cultural influence and regional politics begin to shape the idea of God as it emerged.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Adminhttps://dailyhistory.org/index.php?title=History_of_God_Top_Ten_Booklist&diff=5041&oldid=prevAdmin at 21:57, 7 December 20162016-12-07T21:57:33Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ludwig, Theodore M. 2006. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Sacred-Paths-West-Theodore-Ludwig</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dp</del>/013153906X The Sacred Paths of the West]</i>. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall.:  This book looks at the development of Western theology in ancient periods. The development of Western religion has multiple roots, from its polytheistic origins to influences from the east, including Persia and the Zoroastrian religion.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ludwig, Theodore M. 2006. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">gp/product</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">013153906X</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=</ins>013153906X<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=53f2f05e5a59e8242bb8e70b2b0aeb7e </ins>The Sacred Paths of the West]</i>. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall.:  This book looks at the development of Western theology in ancient periods. The development of Western religion has multiple roots, from its polytheistic origins to influences from the east, including Persia and the Zoroastrian religion.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Porter, Barbara N., ed. 2000. <i>[https://www.amazon.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">co.uk</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">One-God-Many-Transactions-Assyriological</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dp</del>/096742500X One God or Many?: Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World]</i>. Transactions of the Casco Bay Assyriological Institute 1. Chebeague, ME: Casco Bay Assyriological Institute.:  This book looks at the polytheistic faiths in the ancient Near East and the concept of gods and god that developed in the region. The way in which an idea of a singular god develops is discussed in the volume.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Porter, Barbara N., ed. 2000. <i>[https://www.amazon.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">gp/product</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">096742500X</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=</ins>096742500X<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=12309b624e9ea34fb80b864572efd890 </ins>One God or Many?: Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World]</i>. Transactions of the Casco Bay Assyriological Institute 1. Chebeague, ME: Casco Bay Assyriological Institute.:  This book looks at the polytheistic faiths in the ancient Near East and the concept of gods and god that developed in the region. The way in which an idea of a singular god develops is discussed in the volume.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Background to the List==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Background to the List==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The concept of God and his historical development is an extraordinarily complex topic not easily addressed in ten books. Some works attempt to provide a complex but also more easily explained set of ideas on how the concept of God, or single devine being, developed in different cultures, places, and across time. The history of the idea of God is long and has its roots from prehistoric to early historic periods in the ancient Near East. Later cultures developed concepts that derive from ancient Iran, Greece, Egypt, and perhaps other regions. In a period over several hundred years, in the late first millennium BC and during the first centuries AD, several faiths, including Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism emerged that took the idea of God to levels that influence us today. While no easy task, here are the ten best books that try to make sense of this complex history.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The concept of God and his historical development is an extraordinarily complex topic not easily addressed in ten books. Some works attempt to provide a complex but also more easily explained set of ideas on how the concept of God, or single devine being, developed in different cultures, places, and across time. The history of the idea of God is long and has its roots from prehistoric to early historic periods in the ancient Near East. Later cultures developed concepts that derive from ancient Iran, Greece, Egypt, and perhaps other regions. In a period over several hundred years, in the late first millennium BC and during the first centuries AD, several faiths, including Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism emerged that took the idea of God to levels that influence us today. While no easy task, here are the ten best books that try to make sense of this complex history.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Armstrong, Karen. 1999. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345384563/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345384563&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c5f79436e48ccd70fe128e130224ab49 A History of God]</i>. London: Vintage.:  The book is somewhat more narrow that later books, looking mainly at Judaism, Christianity and Islam, along with Buddhism and Hinduism, as examples of different religions that emerged. The evolution of the idea of God is investigated in the ancient Near East, where the book looks at how the idea of God developed up to the modern day.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Smith, Mark S. 2002. <i>[https://www.amazon.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">co.uk</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Early-History-God-Biblical-Resource</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dp</del>/080283972X The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel]</i>. 2nd ed. The Biblical Resource Series. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.:  This book provides a detailed analysis on the early history of Judaism as it developed in ancient Judah and Israel. The book discusses the surrounding cultures and states that developed along these two states, explaining how cultural influence and regional politics begin to shape the idea of God as it emerged.</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bowker, John Westerdale. 2002. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/God-Brief-History-John-Bowker/dp/0789480506 God: A Brief History]</i>. 1st American ed. London ; New York: DK Pub.:  The book looks at the origins of the Israelites, their development of the ideas of God, and then later influences that come on the Near East, in particular Greek influences that integrate new philosophies in the Near East. However, the book looks more at later views of god from other cultures and does not so much focus on the original ideas and how they evolved.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bowker, John Westerdale. 2002. <i>[https://www.amazon.com/God-Brief-History-John-Bowker/dp/0789480506 God: A Brief History]</i>. 1st American ed. London ; New York: DK Pub.:  The book looks at the origins of the Israelites, their development of the ideas of God, and then later influences that come on the Near East, in particular Greek influences that integrate new philosophies in the Near East. However, the book looks more at later views of god from other cultures and does not so much focus on the original ideas and how they evolved.</div></td></tr>
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