The Invention of GodWho invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Rmer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms Yhwh, God, or Allah by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE. That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a surprise. But as Rmer makes clear, a wealth of evidence allows us to piece together a reliable account of the