DR. BENJAMIN D. SOMMER | THE PLURITARIAN AND FLUID GOD OF ISRAEL | JEWISH MONOTHEISM | THE TRINITY!!

Benjamin D. Sommer (Hebrew: בנימין זומר; born July 6, 1964) is an American biblical scholar and Jewish theologian. He is a Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is a former director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. Sommer's research encompass areas of biblical theology, history of Israelite religion, and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, and Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition. Sommer was elected to membership in the Biblical Colloquium in 2014 and to membership in the American Academy for Jewish Research in 2017. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:45 How Dr. Sommers book came to be 00:16:19 "Fluidity of Divine Self-Hood" 00:23:10 What constitutes "Monotheism"? 00:28:57 Exodus 23:20-22 as Example 00:33:13 God appears as "Human" 00:37:30 Are these Jewish "fringe groups"? 00:42:02 What is "Intra-Deical Dynamism"? 00:52:20 Unknowability & Allegories 01:01:00 Continuity of the Old and New Testament! 01:07:03 Thoughts on "Progressive Revelation" 01:10:40 Jewish background of N.T. Authors.