Bibliograph

The great shift, encountering God in biblical times, James L Kugel

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The great shift, encountering God in biblical times, James L Kugel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-441) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great shift

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

992689016

Responsibility statement

James L Kugel

Sub title

encountering God in biblical times

Summary

Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine—wrestling an angel, addressing a burning bush, issuing forth prophecy without any choice in the matter? These stories spoke very differently to their original audience than they do to us. The author fuses close readings of ancient texts with modern scholarship from a range of fields to explain the origins of belief, worship, and the sense of self, and the changing nature of God through history, telling a story of a revolution in human consciousness and the enchantment of everyday life

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Encountering God in biblical times

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