TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Mark S.
TI  - God in translation: deities in cross-cultural discourse in the biblical world 
SN  - 9780802864338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BS680.G57 S65 2010 
U1  - 202/.1109394 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Mich.
PB  - W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
KW  - Gods in the Bible
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - History
N1  - Originally published: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2008. (Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 57); Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction : the subject of translatability of deities -- Empires and their deities : translatability in the Late Bronze Age -- Translatability and national gods in Ancient Israel -- The rejection of translatability in Israel and the impact of Mesopotamian empires on divinity -- "Protecting God" against translatability : biblical censorship in Post-Exilic Israel -- "The beautiful essence of all the gods" : translatability in the Greco-Roman world -- The biblical God in the world : Jewish and Christian translatability and its limits -- Epilogue : scholars of God, then and now
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2010023317-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2010023317-d.html
ER  -