The Birth of Monotheism: The Rise and Disappearance of Yahwism. This item is unavailable.The Birth of Monotheism: The Rise and Disappearance of Yahwism

In this groundbreaking book—accessible to laypeople and scholars alike—André Lemaire, a world-renowned expert on the ancient world, explores the development of perhaps the most important idea in the history of mankind: the concept of a single, universal God. Lemaire traces this key idea from its precursor—the religion of ancient Israel, which worshiped a single God but accepted the idea that other nations would have gods of their own to worship—to the development of classic, universal monotheism during the crisis of the Babylonian Exile and after.

Andre lemaire is the directeur d'Etudes at the history and philolgy section of the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris) and professor of Hebrew and Aramaic philology aand epigraphy. He has worked for nearly 40 years in the field of Northwest Semitic epigraphy, archaeology and ancient history and has published about 400 articles on those subjects.