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God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Hardcover, 2021)
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El had seventy children who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body a wife offspring and colleagues. He fought monsters and mortals. But as Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou reveals Gods cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society whether we are believers or not.
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Beautifully written, passionately argued and frequently controversial, God: An Anatomy is cultural history on a grand scale. Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god called El. El had seventy children, who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body, a wife, offspring and colleagues. He fought monsters and mortals. He gorged on food and wine, wrote books, and took walks and naps. But he would become something far larger and far more abstract: the God of the great monotheistic religions. But as Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou reveals, God's cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written, and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society, whether we are believers or not. The Bible has shaped our ideas about God and religion, but also our cultural preferences about human existence and experience; our concept of life and death; our attitude to sex and gender; our habits of eating and drinking; our understanding of history. Examining God's body, from his head to his hands, feet and genitals, she shows how the Western idea of God developed. She explores the places and artefacts that shaped our view of this singular God and the ancient religions and societies of the biblical world. And in doing so she analyses not only the origins of our oldest monotheistic religions, but also the origins of Western culture.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139781509867332
eBay Product ID (ePID)3049070703
Product Key Features
Book TitleGod: an Anatomy
AuthorFrancesca Stavrakopoulou
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicNature, Religious History, Christianity, History
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages608 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height243mm
Item Width164mm
Item Weight900 g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorFrancesca Stavrakopoulou
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 06 Oct, 2021
a very good book
a very interesting book by a very good writerVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
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