Poems vs The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Which Should You Read?

Poems Francis Thompson · 1893 ★★★★☆ 3.8 328 pages · ≈ 6 h 04 m · Demanding

It is a poetry book. Francis Thompson, a poet of high thinking, 'of celestial vision', and of imaginings that found literary images of answering splendour, died in London in the winter of 1907. His life—always a fragile…

The Origins of Biblical Monotheism Mark S Smith · 2001 ★★★★☆ 3.9 348 pages · ≈ 6 h 27 m · Challenging

“What do Ugaritic texts and iconography tell us about the representation of divinity?”

One of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to…