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The Memoirs of God: History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel

The Memoirs of God: History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel by Mark S. Smith Fortress, Minneapolis, 2004. 187 pp. $21.00. ISBN 0-8006-3485-3.

MARK S. SMITH, A LEADING authority on the ancient Ugaritic literature and the history of Israelite religion in its West Semitic context, has written two important studies of the emergence of biblical monotheism: The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (2nd ed., 2002), and The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (2001). The present volume makes his earlier discussion accessible to non-specialist readers and also breaks new ground by using ...

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