When Man Becomes God: Humanism and 'Hybris' in the Old Testament

by Donald E. Gowan, Dikran Hadidian (Editor)

Overview

Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series
General Editor - Dikran Y. Hadidian

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725242067
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/1975
Series:	Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Donald E. Gowan, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, is an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church. Dr. Gowan received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

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"The special emphasis in this book is on the fact that the most powerful and most dangerous form of idolatry is not an individual's delusion of grandeur and thoughts of himself as a god, but a nation's."

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"The special emphasis in this book is on the fact that the most powerful and most dangerous form of idolatry is not an individual's delusion of grandeur and thoughts of himself as a god, but a nation's."

America

"This study is admittedly something relatively rare, if not unique in the biblical field...."

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

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