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Article: Yahweh Versus Yahweh.(Yahweh Versus Yahweh: The Enigma of Jewish History)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- September 1, 2005
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Yahweh Versus Yahweh
Jay Y. Gonen
University of Wisconsin Press
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Yahweh Versus Yahweh: The Enigma Of Jewish History is an in-depth scrutiny of duality of God's nature as perceived in virtually all forms of Judaism and throughout all of history. On one side is a merciful and loving God; another is the jealous, vengeful, and ruthless god who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children. This seemingly schizophrenic dichotomy has had tremendous psychohistorical reverbations, claims author Jay Gonen, ...