The Great Shift
God appears to Abraham and Sarah, Jacob and others; He buttonholes Moses and Isaiah and Jeremiah and tells them what to say. Then Israelites stop seeing God or hearing His voice. Instead, later Israelites are 'in search of God,' reaching out to a distant, omniscient deity in prayers, as people have done ever since. What brought about this change? Using answers from the Bible and other ancient texts, archaeology and anthropology and recent advances in neuroscience, Kugel leads readers to the most basic matter of all: the nature of humanity's encounter with God from earliest times to our own day.
Details
- Authors
- James L. Kugel
- Publishers
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publish Date
- September 12, 2017
- ISBN
- 9780544520554 • 9780544520578
- Format
- EPUB • WEB
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 496
- Downloads
- 4
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