Moses among the Idols
Subtitle: Mediators of the Divine in the Ancient near East
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781978700307
Subjects: Moses (biblical leader); Idols and images; Middle east, history, to 622
Description: In this book, Amy L. Balogh brings together comparative religion, Assyriology, and biblical studies to illuminate the status of the Hebrew Bible's most important figure-Moses. Through comparison with ancient Mesopotamian idols, she reads Moses as YHWH's idol, offering a new paradigm for understanding divine-human mediation in the ancient Near East.