Professor Robert Kawashima was a awarded a Publication Subvention Grant for his monograph The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge, published by Indiana University Press in 2022. The book reexamines what is generally, if misleadingly, known as the “monotheistic revolution.” Based on comparative analyses of biblical prose narrative and the myths and epics of ancient Greece and the ancient Near East, Professor Kawashima argues that the biblical writers transformed the concepts of the divine, the human, and the cosmos, which they inherited from the surrounding cultures. Ultimately, what is distinctive about biblical narrative is not the belief in one as opposed to many gods, but the redefinition of the divine as being no longer a part of nature.