The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: Sep 12, 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780544520554
Description: 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.