By Othmar Keel,Brent A. Strawn

Jerusalem, with its turbulent heritage, is one of the best-known towns of the realm. an extended line of overseas powers have governed over it, from way back to biblical instances. however the urban owes its value to not them yet to the truth that it's the birthplace of the monotheistic currents that form Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Othmar Keel sketches in huge brush strokes the ancient improvement of Israelite-Jewish monotheism in and round Jerusalem, arguing that monotheism is “a made from town, now not of the desert,” and describes its integration of polytheistic symbols and perceptions into its worldview. Keel is determined by biblical and extrabiblical texts in addition to the wealthy iconographic facts of archaeological discoveries. considerable maps and sketches of archaeological artifacts increase his argument.

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