Peoples of an Almighty God
Subtitle: Competing Religions in the Ancient World (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780300140590
Subjects: Biblical Commentary - General; Comparative Religion; History; Faith; Religion; Religion - World Religions
First sentence: THE ANONYMOUS PROPHET whom we now call Deutero-Isaiah"" or ""the Second Isaiah"" wrote the words on the facing page after Cyrus, king of Persia, took Babylon in 539 B.C.E. Long before he wrote, the Israelites (or Jews) considered themselves to be the chosen "