The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times - Softcover

Kugel, James L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1328505928 ISBN 13: 9781328505927

Verlag: Mariner, 2018

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"Lively, inviting account . . . the author is at home in every era from that of the ancient texts to our own, and he makes for an excellent guide. Biblical exegesis at its best: a brilliant and sensitive reading of ancient texts, all with an eye to making them meaningful to our time by making sense of what they meant in their own." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Provocative . . . likely to interest both believers and nonbelievers with some familiarity with the Old Testament." --Booklist

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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 as the modern, Western idea of the individual is born. In this landmark 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, monotheism, worship, divine omniscience, and - crucially - the human sense of self. In the tradition of books such as 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.

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• Verlag: Mariner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1328505928
• ISBN 13: 9781328505927
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496