UID:
almahu_9948561085102882
Format:
1 online resource (1048 pages).
ISBN:
9780190072575 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190072544
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
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