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Winston, Robert M. L. 2006. <i>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Professor-Lord-Robert-Winston/dp/0553817434 The Story of God]</i>. London: Bantam Books. This book looks at the development of the concept of God from prehistory to the historical development in ancient Judaism and Christianity. It looks then how the concept developed in Islam and how modern ideas of God are shaped by the modern world. The book looks at how science has affect modern understanding of God.
Mitchell, Stephen, and Peter van Nuffelen, eds. 2010. <i>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-God-Pagan-Monotheism-Empire/dp/0521194164 One God: Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire]</i>. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.: Unlike some of the other books, this one focuses on how polytheistic faiths in the Roman Empire may have influenced early Christian and monotheistic developments. Cults around individuals gods or a "higher god" developed during the Roman Empire and these are seen as influential, in some circles, in developing concepts of monotheism that began to mature in the period of the early Roman Empire.
