This work offers a social-scientific analysis of Yehud and uses that analysis to construct a model through which to analyze later monotheistic religious developments.
Jeremiah Cataldois Assistant Professor of History in the Frederik Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University, USA.
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Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is meant by
monotheism?
Chapter 2: How monotheism
creates a new normative order in support of its own authority
Chapter 3: Socialization and
conflict as forces productive of identity
Chapter 4: Divine law as a
dominant discourse of the monotheistic self
Chapter 5: Clarifying land as
the arena for restoration
Chapter 6: The necessity of an
other for monotheistic identity
Chapter 7: The monotheistic
body within view: understanding the parameters of the model
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