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The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible

Inside the Lost World of the Bible

by James L Kugel

  • Paperback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm

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Our notion of God today -- all-powerful, invisible, and omnipresent -- is not the same as the God of the Hebrew Bible. So who is this "God of Old?" And what is His place in the modern spiritual world? James Kugel is renowned for his investigations into the history of the biblical era, a time beginning more than three thousand years ago, when the Bible's earliest parts first took shape. With The God of Old, Kugel goes even deeper, attempting to enter the pages of the Old Testament and see God as the Israelites first encountered him. The God of Old appeared to people unexpectedly; He was not sought out. Often He was not even recognized, at first mistaken for an ordinary human being. The realm of the divine was not as it is today -- a spiritual dimension set off from the material world. The spiritual and the material overlapped, and the realm of the dead was a real domain just beyond the world of the living. Ordinary reality was in constant danger of sliding into something else, something stark but oddly familiar. And God was always standing just behind the curtain of the everyday world. In this groundbreaking study, Kugel suggests that this alternative spirituality is not simply an archaic relic, replaced by a "better" understanding. Kugel's picture of the God of Old has much to tell us about God's very nature, and about the encounter between Him and human beings in today's world. A book to treasure side by side with the Bible, The God of Old is sure to engage scholars and spiritual seekers alike for years to come.
The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible and Reflections On The Psalms
Reflections On The PsalmsThe God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible

  • Author

    James L Kugel

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Free Press

  • Published

    June 2004

  • Weight

    305g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780743235853

  • ISBN-10

    0743235851

  • Eden Code

    3156357

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