Were ancient Israel and its Hebrew Bible monotheistic, and was this monotheism unique in the world of the ancient Near East—the world in which Israel was born and lived? This talk will explore how the biblical writers, and others in ancient Israel, tried to respond to the divine and to make sense of it, within the larger realm of the ancient Near East.
PETER MACHINIST
(Harvard)
Cosponsored by the
UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
