Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism

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185 Aaron, 112, 116 Abdel-Qader Mohammed, 157n21 Abel, 34 abomination, 31, 44, 104–5, 111, 118, 126, 128, 133, 135, 138 Abrahamitic religions, 110–11 absolute, 4, 33–34, 37, 41, 43, 57, 104, 113, 116, 126, 139, 142, 145 Abydos, 33, 35–36, 42–43, 48 Adad, 60 Adonai, 56 Adoneus, 56 adultery, 36, 38, 117, 136 Age of Transcendence, 138 Akedah, 31 Akhenaten, 31, 47, 64–68, 81–82, 85– 88, 156n11, 161n9 Akkadian, 54, 63 Alter, Robert, 112 Amalek, 41, 164n52 Amarna, 13, 47, 66–70, 81–85, 89 Amenophis III, 45, 46, 47 Amenophis Paapis, 45 Amorite (language), 54, 118 Amun, 10, 14–15, 31, 58, 63–70, 73–74, 107, 154n50 Amun-Re, 15, 58, 63, 67, 69, 107 Anquetil-Duperron, A. H., 77 Anthropocentrism, 20, 63 anti-Canaanism, 124 Anti-Judaism, 44 Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 118–19 Anubis, 42, 48 Apocalypticism, 122 Apophis, 48, 151n25 Apopis (Apep), 34, 41, 65 Apuleius, 49 Aristotle, 72, 108 Árnason, Jóhann P., 156n1, 156n10, 158n41 Aron, 126 Aschheim, Stephen, 148n16 Asclepius, 50 Ashurbanipal, 30, 44, 60, 100 Asianism, 41 Asiatic foe, 45, 47, 50 ass, 44, 49, 150n18 assimilation, 98, 119, 124 Assur, 30 Assyria, 29, 44, 75, 84, 97, 118 Assyrian (language), Assyrians, 29–31, 41, 43, 47, 50, 83–84, 96–97, 113– 14, 118, 144, 150–51n22 Aten, 81 Athanassiadi, Polymnia, 148n15 Athens, 100 Atum, 58, 61, 64–65, 73–74 Atum-Khepre, 58 Augustine, 20, 49 authorization (of law), 99  Axial Age, 8, 32, 76–78, 90, 138, 156n5, 158n41 axiality, 77–89, 93, 158n41 Ba, 39–41, 67–70, 73–74 Ba’al, 39–41 Baal Pe‘or, 115–16 Babylon, 24, 30, 99, 105 Babylonia, 9, 24, 75, 86, 118 Babylonian exile, 25, 43, 83, 86, 88, 97–98, 101 Bacchus, 55 ban. See herem ban Barth, Karl, 140 battle, 44, 117 Becker, Uwe, 157n25 Beckett, Samuel, 130 Benjamin, Walter, 142 Bes, 69, 70 Bhagavad Gita, 155n59 Bickerman(n), Elias, 163n34 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 140 Book of the Dead (chap. 125), 37–39 breakthrough, 77–84, 93, 96, 107 Breasted, James Henry, 82, 156n11 Buddha, 76, 77 Buddhism, 92, 121, 139 Burkert, Walter, 32 caesaro-papism, 29, 86, 89 Cain, 34, 161 caliphate, 29, 89 Canaan, 112, 118, 124, 128 Canaanite(s), 40, 107, 108, 112, 118–19, 163n31 Canaanophobia, 111 canon, 90–93, 99, 102–5, 120–22, 137, 158n3, 159n12, 160n48 canonization, 90–99, 103 Celsus, 56 chaos, 23, 24, 65–66, 68, 74 China, 76, 122 chosen people, 3, 22, 25, 27, 84, 123 Christianity, 10, 29, 36, 43, 50–51, 92, 105, 111, 122, 138–40, 144, 164n11 church and state, 85, 86 Clastres, Pierre, 157n31 Clement of Alexandria, 101 codification, 27, 62, 72, 90, 91, 94–99, 104 Cohen, Yoram, 150n3 coming of God, 16 commandments, 38–39, 104, 120, 135, 140–41, 145 compactness, 77–78, 81, 88 concrete religion, 126, 141, 142 Confucius, 76–77; Confucianism, 92 constellation, 20–21, 27, 35, 47, 66, 102 conversion, 6, 31, 110, 123–24, 128, 138, 163n39 core library, 100–105 corn-mummy, 42 cosmogony, 61–62 cosmology, 18, 81; cosmological societies , 88 cosmos, 17–19, 26, 65–67, 70, 87, 106, 125, 155n64; cosmic dimension, 17; cosmic god, 70–71, 106 cosmotheism, 33, 70, 72–74, 105, 138, 155n64 counterreligion, 7, 110 countersociety, 85, 157n31 counterviolence, 28, 34–35, 118, 123–24, 143, 145 covenant, 3, 14, 21, 83, 85, 87, 113–14, 117, 120, 141 covenant theology, 83, 114 cratogony, 61 creation, 12, 18, 26–27, 60–69, 75, 83, 87, 93, 97, 103, 133, 143 Cudworth, Ralph, 53 cult, 12, 15 cultic/local dimension, 58 culture, 108; cultural identity, 97–98 curiosity, 48–49, 151n31 Curse on Aggade, 23 186 Index Dagan, 60 Daoism, 92 Darius I, 98 Darwin, 108 David, 25 death, 19–20, 26, 33–44, 65–66, 76, 78–80, 82, 113, 119, 130, 135 decalogue, 37–38 Decius, 28 deep religion, 139–42 Delumeau, Jean, 164–65n11 denunciation, 113 de-temporization, 66–68 deus absconditus, 106 Deuteronomy, 25, 84, 96, 113–24; Deuteronomic , 8, 25–26, 75, 96, 108, 114–15, 118, 124; Deuteronomism, 114 diaspora, 101, 103 differentiation,35,63,77–78,88,158n41 Dillon, John, 161n1 Diodorus of Sicily, 49 Dionysos, 55 disembodiment, 94, 95, 96–98, 104 divination, 18, 24 divine: absence, 87; intervention, 23–24; presence, 9, 10, 14–22, 27, 31, 87, 90...