The origin and character of God : ancient Israelite religion through the lens of divinity / Theodore J. Lewis.
2020
BM610 .L494 2020
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Title
The origin and character of God : ancient Israelite religion through the lens of divinity / Theodore J. Lewis.
Author
ISBN
9780190072575 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1048 pages).
Call Number
BM610 .L494 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
296.311
Summary
In the Hebrew Bible, God is characterised 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 study of the vast subject that is the God of Israel. He explores questions of historical origin, how God wascharacterised 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.
Note
In the Hebrew Bible, God is characterised 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 study of the vast subject that is the God of Israel. He explores questions of historical origin, how God wascharacterised 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190072544
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