Zwei Götter im Himmel

"Son of Man", "Son of the Most High", "Firstborn before all creation": Even early Judaism had many names for a second God in heaven. Peter Schäfer shows how this idea was developed over centuries by rabbis and Jewish mystics. His groundbreaking book makes us thoroughly rethink the common image of a Jewish monotheism. Archaeologists have proven that the Jewish God was long worshipped together with a companion - despite all the Bible's criticism of other gods. But even in the Bible itself, there are numerous traces of a second, younger deity to which Christianity could tie. Peter Schäfer describes, on the basis of ancient sources that have been scarcely considered until now, how Judaism reacted to this appropriation of the second God by the sister religion: Partly the second God was rejected, partly.