God: An Anatomy
Beautifully written, passionately argued and frequently controversial, God: An Anatomy is cultural history on a grand scale. Three and a half thousand years ago, in the West 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 Elyon, the Most High. El Elyon had seventy children, each of whom became gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body, a wife, children and parents. 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-6735-6
- EAN: 9781509867356
- Produktnummer: 32489843
- Verlag: Pan MacMillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Über den Autor
Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou studied theology at Oxford and is currently Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter. The author of a number of academic works, she also presented the BBC 2 documentary series The Bible's Buried Secrets. She regularly appears on BBC1's The Big Questions and Sunday Morning Live, and has appeared on several Radio 4 shows, including Woman's Hour, The Infinite Monkey Cage and The Museum of Curiosity. She writes for the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, and the Times Literary Supplement, and has spoken about the Bible, religion, and atheism at numerous public events, including the Cheltenham Science Festival, the World Humanist Congress, and Conway Hall's annual London Thinks festival. Her contribution (on the same subject as the book) to Dan Snow's History Hits podcast is currently its most popular ever episode.
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