God
An Anatomy
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God
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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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.
©2021 Francesca Stavrakopoulou (P)2021 Random House AudioCe que les critiques en disent
"A detailed and scrupulously researched book . . . [Stavrakopoulou] proceeds, in 21 chapters packed with knowledge and insight, to 'anatomize' the divinity from head to toe, starting with the 'standing stones' that marked the footsteps of deities in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age and ending with images of God that enabled people to imagine that they were somehow communing with him 'face to face.'\"—Karen Armstrong, The New York Times
“Brilliant . . . Fascinating . . . Boldly simple in concept, God: An Anatomy is stunning in its execution. It is a tour de force, a triumph, and I write this as one who disagrees with Stavrakopoulou both on broad theoretical grounds and one who finds himself engaged with her in one narrow textual spat after another . . . Great fun to read . . . A stunning book.”—Jack Miles, Catholic Herald
“This book is a great rebel shout. . . [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
Fascinating; Will relisten in future
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an excellent plot and vast references to archeological sources. Most parallels are awesome
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For instance, the other day I learned that the god of the oldest books in the bible was El, who’s wife was Athirat and one of who’s sons was Yahweh. Later Yahweh worshipers decided that there’s was the only true god and scholars retconned the older mythology to say that El was Yahweh all along. The son became the father retroactively. Which was probably kinda controversial at the time.
Then just yesterday it clicked that this is exactly what was happening at the Council of Nicaea. Arius and his followers held that Jesus was the Son of God (Yahweh) and that he was made, new by his father. On the other hand the Nicene Creed, which triumphed, was intent on retconning Jesus the son to be the god himself, replacing Yahweh in exactly the same way centuries before Yahweh had replaced El, his father. The Council of Nicaea makes more sense in this context.
I suspect that many readers who were subjected to a very dishonest account of the Hebrew bible like I was will find over and over again that important details, background and context had been expurgated from their “education.” This is the overview that makes sense of a very messy and conflicted mythology.
An extraordinary revelation.
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Professor Stavrakopoulou examines how the Western idea of God came to be using her knowledge of ancient religions and deep examination of the Hebrew bible.
She shows how the ancient God had a human shaped body, walked and talked with his followers, laughed, cried, and loved his people.
A male god with bulging muscles, long hair, a well kept mustache and a luxurious beard, a long thick member with heavy testicles, reddish tinged skin, thonged sandles on feet, and perfumes on his skin. Look once and hes young and athletic with dark blueish hair, look again and he's aged and wise with white hair and beard. He has blood under his nails the faint impression of a tight band around his forehead.
The western God is a post biblical fable - an assembly of 2000 years of selected stories and books to create a God that lets cancer kill too young and hunger to run rampant across the globe. A god that has little in common with those created in his image.
God's Beard And Other Musings
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The content is sometimes a challenging listen
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I will listen many times over and over again.
Fascinating
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