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Main description: The volume contains the papers from an international symposium held in 2007 by the Göttingen Graduate School on Images of Gods- Images of God- World Views: Polytheism and Monotheism in the Antique World. Working from the topic of Time and Eternity as Places of Divine Action, the contributors examine differing conceptions of time and eternity in a cultural region with intensive exchange. The papers deal with the Ancient Orient (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran),ancient philosophy (Aristotle, Plato, Stoa) and the three world religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam.