Bernhard Lang, The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity.(Book Review)

From: Biblical Theology Bulletin | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: Gnuse, Robert | Copyright information

New Haven, CT/London, UK: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 246. Cloth, $59.95.

We have come to anticipate significant critical and creative insights from Bernhard Lang over the years; his contributions to our understandings of religious development in ancient Israel have been seminal. Relying upon the work of Georges Dumezil, a renown scholar in the history of religions, Lang classifies the different ways in which the First Testament portrays Yahweh. Dumezil suggests...

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