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For centuries, the idea of one God has stood as the defining feature of Western religion. Yet monotheism was not a timeless revelation-it was a revolutionary invention. In From Many to One: The Invention of God in the Ancient Near East, S.K. Nordstromberg traces the long and complex evolution from polytheistic imagination to the singular deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Drawing from archaeology, linguistics, and comparative mythology, Nordstromberg reveals how ancient peoples-Akkadians, Canaanites, Israelites, Persians-reshaped the divine order in response to conquest, crisis, and empire. This book explores: How early gods of fertility, storm, and war merged into national deities of empire. The political and psychological forces that transformed Yahweh from a tribal god into the sole creator of heaven and earth. The interplay between myth, memory, and imperial ideology that birthed the modern notion of the divine. Why the belief in ""One God"" was not an inevitable truth but a powerful cultural strategy. At once historical and philosophical, From Many to One unveils the human story behind one of civilization's most consequential ideas: the unification of the divine.

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