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Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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January 2022
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Hardcover
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Published
January 2022
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An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers--with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous.
"[A] rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh's body, from top to bottom (yes, that too) and from inside out ... Ms. Stavrakopoulou has almost too much fun."--The Economist The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ. The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male. Here is a portrait--arrived at through the author's close examination of and research into the Bible--of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world. From head to toe--and every part of the body in between--this is a god of stunning surprise and complexity, one we have never encountered before.
Author
Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Published
January 2022
Weight
968g
Dimensions
17.2 x 24.5 x 3.9 cm
ISBN
9780525520450
ISBN-10
0525520457
Eden Code
5543139
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Author/Creator: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
ISBN: 9780525520450
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Release Date: January 2022
Weight: 968g
Dimensions: 17.2 x 24.5 x 3.9 cm
Eden Code: 5543139