God in translation
Subtitle: deities in cross-cultural discourse in the biblical world
By: Mark S. Smith
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780802864338
Notes: Originally published: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2008. (Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 57)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the subject of translatability of deities; title: Empires and their deities : translatability in the Late Bronze Age; title: Translatability and national gods in Ancient Israel; title: The rejection of translatability in Israel and the impact of Mesopotamian empires on divinity; title: "Protecting God" against translatability : biblical censorship in Post-Exilic Israel; title: "The beautiful essence of all the gods" : translatability in the Greco-Roman world; title: The biblical God in the world : Jewish and Christian translatability and its limits; title: Epilogue : scholars of God, then and now.