God : An Anatomy - As heard on Radio 4

Name: God : An Anatomy - As heard on Radio 4
Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
ISBN: 9781509867332

by Francesca Stavrakopoulou

ISBN: 9781509867332

Published: 2021

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As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week . . .'Rivetingly fresh and stunning' Sunday Times'A tour de force, a triumph' Catholic Herald'One of the most remarkable historians and communicators working today' Dan SnowThree thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god called El. El had seventy children, who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body, a wife, offspring and colleagues. He fought monsters and mortals. He gorged on food and wine, wrote books, and took walks and naps. But he would become something far larger and far more abstract: the God of the great monotheistic religions. But as Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou reveals, God's cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written, and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society, whether we are believers or not. The Bible...

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