TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Mark S.
TI  - God in translation: deities in cross-cultural discourse in the biblical world 
SN  - 9780802864338
AV  - BS680.S655.G635 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Company
KW  - Gods in the Bible
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - History
N1  - Originally published: T ubingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2008. (Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 57); 1 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; 2
ER  -