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The Origin and Character of God - Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity (Hardcover)
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The Origin and Character of God - Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity (Hardcover)
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Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that
deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In
the Hebrew Bible, God is characterized variously as militant,
beneficent, inscrutable, loving, and judicious. Who is this
divinity that has been represented as masculine and feminine,
mythic and real, transcendent and intimate? The Origin and
Character of God is Theodore J. Lewis's monumental study of the
vast subject that is the God of Israel. In it, he explores
questions of historical origin, how God was characterized in
literature, and how he was represented in archaeology and
iconography. He also brings us into the lived reality of religious
experience. Using the window of divinity to peer into the varieties
of religious experience in ancient Israel, Lewis explores the royal
use of religion for power, prestige, and control; the intimacy of
family and household religion; priestly prerogatives and cultic
status; prophetic challenges to injustice; and the pondering of
theodicy by poetic sages. A volume that is encyclopedic in scope
but accessible in tone, The Origin and Character of God is an
essential addition to the growing scholarship of one of humanity's
most enduring concepts.
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