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The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times

Door James L. Kugel

Categorie	Religie & Theologie
Boeknummer	#340125-XF23
Titel	The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times
Auteur	Kugel, James L.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Boston/New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jaar van uitgave	2017
ISBN10	0544520556
ISBN13	9780544520554
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red boards gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 2 small b/w maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A world-renowned scholar brings a lifetime of study to reveal how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical Era made us who we are today Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine'wrestling an angel, addressing a burning bush, issuing forth prophecy without any choice in the matter? These stories spoke very differently to their original audience than they do to us, and they reflect a radically distinct understanding of reality and the human mind. Yet over the course of the thousand-year Biblical Era, encounters with God changed dramatically. As James L. Kugel argues, this transition allows us to glimpse a massive shift in human experience'the emergence of the modern, Western sense of self. In this lan... (Lees verder)dmark work, Kugel fuses revelatory close readings of ancient texts with modern scholarship from a range of fields, including neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, and archaeology, to explain the origins of belief, worship, and the sense of self, and the changing nature of God through history. In the tradition of books like The Swerve and The Better Angels of Our Nature,The Great Shift tells the story of a revolution in human consciousness and the enchantment of everyday life. This book will make believers and seekers think differently not just about the Bible, but about the entire history of the human imagination.
Pagina's	476
Conditie	Goed — Small tear dust jacket repaired.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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