The scourge of monotheism

Jerusalem Post | January 7, 2005| | Copyright

YEHUDA KURTZER
Jerusalem Post
01-07-2005
Headline: The scourge of monotheism
Byline: YEHUDA KURTZER
Edition; Up Front
Section: Books
Page: 27

Friday, January 7, 2005 -- God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism By Jonathan Kirsch Viking Compass 336pp., $25.95

The fourth century was one of history's great ripe moments. Known best as part of the "decline and fall of the Roman Empire," it was also a simultaneously disturbing and momentous period of transition from Imperial to Christian Europe. Successive wars, the ascension of Emperor Constantine and his ...

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