In A Social-Political History of Monotheism, Cataldo shows how political concerns were fundamental to the development of Judeo-Christian monotheism. There are no end of histories of monotheism that concentrate on its gestation: how monotheism originated. Cataldo's Social-Political History of Monotheism instead breaks new ground by telling the story of monotheism once it had taken shape, and how it developed. This is history on a grand scale: original, ambitious, and bracing.? - Nathan MacDonald, St John's College, Cambridge, UK