How God became God
Subtitle: what scholars are really saying about God and the Bible
By: Richard Smoley
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780399185557
Subjects: God; Biblical teaching
Description: "This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false--yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, inner, authentic experience of the truly sacred,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Groundwater: the problem of God; title: The defective scripture: what we now know about the Bible; title: The haze of legend: from the Flood to the Judges; title: Monarchy, united and divided: from Saul to the fall of Israel; title: Who was Yahweh?; title: Fall and return: the exile and its aftermath; title: Jesus in his context; title: The life of Jesus: origins; title: What Jesus taught; title: The life of Jesus: the public career; title: The birth of the Church; title: Paul: the great apostle; title: Revelation: the overthrow of the wicked angels; title: The Master and two Marys; title: Practical mysticism.