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This innovative volume of ten essays focuses on monotheism as a problem, in that its existence in ancient biblical, Jewish, and Christian texts is usually assumed both by scholars and by the so-called Abrahamic religions, even though the evidence for monotheism in the ancient texts themselves is either lacking or, at best, ambiguous. Contributors Debra Scoggins Ballentine, Josiah Bisbee, David A. Burnett, Paula Fredriksen, Dan McClellan, Saul M. Olyan, Brian Rainey, Jennifer Singletary, Robyn Walsh, Emma Wasserman, and Stephen Young challenge scholars and students of religion to engage in further interdisciplinary conversations to move beyond the traditional concept of monotheism that has characterized past scholarship.

Josiah S. Bisbee is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Sperling Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University. He is currently preparing his first monograph, Innumerable Gods in Heaven: Divine Hierarchies from the Hebrew Bible to the Rabbis.

David A. Burnett is a PhD candidate in New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. He is a contributor to the volume Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 1 Corinthians (2019).

Daniel O. McClellan is a public scholar with a popular YouTube channel. His most recent book is The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) about Scripture's Most Controversial Issues (2025), a New York Times bestseller.

Saul M. Olyan is Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. His most recent monograph is Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible (2023). 

Emma Wasserman is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Her most recent book, Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul (2018), was published in the Anchor Yale Reference Library.

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