Emilie Kutash is Lecturer at Salem State University and Endicott College, USA.

• 1. Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes”2. Goddess Prototypes: The Classical Literature3. The Goddesses of Philosophy: The Literature of Later Antiquity4. Mother, Virgin, Erotic Temptress, and Cosmic Womb5. Dualism and the Mediating Goddess6. “The Goddess of the Triple Ways”: Triads and Trinities7. Naming the goddesses Geopolitics and the Intertanslsation of names8. Asherah, Sophia, Shechinah: Are they Hebrew Goddesses? 9. Did Christianity Make the Goddess Disappear? 10. Personifying Nature and Wisdom: The Medieval and Early Modern Goddess11. Goddesses, Gender Binaries and Twentieth Century Feminists, Psychoanalysts, Epistemologists13. The Goddess InterpretedBibliography Index

This book is powerful and engaging. Its range of expertise is striking, not only in relation to primary texts and archaeological findings, but also in its understanding and presentation of the complex secondary literature. Its ability to bring archaeological evidence, history, politics, religion, and theology into mutual conversation is compelling and its capacity to evaluate such evidence in a fair and balanced way is attractive throughout.

Emilie Kutash is Lecturer at Salem State University and Endicott College, USA.

• 1. Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes”2. Goddess Prototypes: The Classical Literature3. The Goddesses of Philosophy: The Literature of Later Antiquity4. Mother, Virgin, Erotic Temptress, and Cosmic Womb5. Dualism and the Mediating Goddess6. “The Goddess of the Triple Ways”: Triads and Trinities7. Naming the goddesses Geopolitics and the Intertanslsation of names8. Asherah, Sophia, Shechinah: Are they Hebrew Goddesses? 9. Did Christianity Make the Goddess Disappear? 10. Personifying Nature and Wisdom: The Medieval and Early Modern Goddess11. Goddesses, Gender Binaries and Twentieth Century Feminists, Psychoanalysts, Epistemologists13. The Goddess InterpretedBibliography Index

This book is powerful and engaging. Its range of expertise is striking, not only in relation to primary texts and archaeological findings, but also in its understanding and presentation of the complex secondary literature. Its ability to bring archaeological evidence, history, politics, religion, and theology into mutual conversation is compelling and its capacity to evaluate such evidence in a fair and balanced way is attractive throughout.

Emilie Kutash is Lecturer at Salem State University and Endicott College, USA.

• 1. Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes”2. Goddess Prototypes: The Classical Literature3. The Goddesses of Philosophy: The Literature of Later Antiquity4. Mother, Virgin, Erotic Temptress, and Cosmic Womb5. Dualism and the Mediating Goddess6. “The Goddess of the Triple Ways”: Triads and Trinities7. Naming the goddesses Geopolitics and the Intertanslsation of names8. Asherah, Sophia, Shechinah: Are they Hebrew Goddesses? 9. Did Christianity Make the Goddess Disappear? 10. Personifying Nature and Wisdom: The Medieval and Early Modern Goddess11. Goddesses, Gender Binaries and Twentieth Century Feminists, Psychoanalysts, Epistemologists13. The Goddess InterpretedBibliography Index

This book is powerful and engaging. Its range of expertise is striking, not only in relation to primary texts and archaeological findings, but also in its understanding and presentation of the complex secondary literature. Its ability to bring archaeological evidence, history, politics, religion, and theology into mutual conversation is compelling and its capacity to evaluate such evidence in a fair and balanced way is attractive throughout.