God the biography
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God: A Biography
April ; Knopf; pages.
Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography,
Book Description
What sort of a "person" is God? What is his "life story"?
Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and ambiguities of a Hamlet?
This is the task that Jack Miles--a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages--accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography.
Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival.
Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation: the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent.
Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike an
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The Biography of a God
- Title
- The Biography of a God
- Subtitle
- Mahasu in the Himalayas
- Author
- Asaf Sharabi
- Price
- € ,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 01 - 05 -
- Dimensions
- x cm
- Series
- Religion and Society in Asia
- Categories
- Anthropology
- Contemporary Society
- Religion and Theology
- South Asia
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
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Table of contents
Notes on Transliteration
Acknowledgment
Meet Mahasu
1. Gods on the Road
Getting into the Field
The Devta Institution
2. A Stormy Biography
Mahasu Appears Vs.1
Mahasu Appears Vs.2
The Gods They are a-Changin’
3. The Four Brothers
Personalities and Identities
The Four Kings
Mahasu as Shiva
Gods Between Here and Everywhere
4. Local Traditions in Times of Change
Local Rituals Fade, Gods Persevere
From Carnivore to Vegetaria
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God: A Biography
Miles shows us God in the guise of a great literary character, the hero of the Old Testament. In a close, careful, and inspired reading of that testament - book bygd book, verse by verse - God is seen from his first appearance as Creator to his last as Ancient of Days. The God whom Miles reveals to us is a warrior whose greatest battle is with himself. We see God torn bygd conflicting urges. To his own sorrow, he fryst vatten by turns destructive and creative, vain and modest, subtle and naive, ruthless and tender, lawful and lawless, powerful yet powerless, omniscient and blind. As we watch him change amazingly, we are drawn into the epic teaterpjäs of his search for self-knowledge, the search that prompted him to create mankind as his spegel. In that mirror he seeks to examine his own reflection, but he also finds there a rival. We then witness God's own perilous del from power to wisdom. For generations our culture's approach to the Bible has been more a reverential act th