Deuteronomy and the Meaning of Monotheism.(Book Review)

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DEUTERONOMY AND THE MEANING OF MONOTHEISM. By Nathan MacDonald. Forschungen zum Alten Testament; 2. Reihe, vol. 1. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. Pp. ix + 271. 49 [pounds sterling].

Modern scholarship of biblical monotheism has generally focused on the history of the concept that there is only one God. There is a widespread agreement among scholars that Israel only decisively rejected polytheism from the exilic period onwards (see R. Gnuse, No Other Gods, 1997). Hence the underlying model is a lengthy process of development and refinement, whereby "monotheism" is frequently ...

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