One God or Many?: Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World Book

Is God temporal or timeless? That is supposedly the primary question of the book. Unfortunately, It only gets cursory nods here and there and a few pages near the end where the author presents his concluding answer: God was eternal before creation but exists temporally with creation.

To be honest, the author lost me in the introduction when he made the inane statement that we have more to learn of God from philosophers than we do from theologians. Ummm... no. It only went downhill once it became clear that the book is less about God's relation to time but rather the philosophies of time (and beyond that, actually the philosophy of the semantics of time). The author presents the two sides as tensed time (the way most reasonable people view time) and tenseless time ( the speech of past and future is meaningless. All time is static)

I do have to admit that I lost the eagerness to read this right from the start and only pulled it out to read a few pages here and there off my phone while waiting to do better things with my life. A good chunk of that would always be trying to catch up with where I was after the multiple day gap and about the time I could plow forward again it was time to go. That is definitely not the way to read a book like this and it skews my perception. Even still, whether or not time is static, it definitely was wasted reading T&E.