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God: An Anatomy
by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
The author's knowledge about the bible and ancient cultures and religions of the south west asia region is truly breathtaking, and armed with this knowledge she managed to convince me that everything that I once knew about the god mentioned in The Bible is completely different from what its original authors intended.
She discusses what is said in The Bible and opposes that to what is usually accepted and what knowledge we have been accumulating about other religions at the same region and at about the same epoch, and makes a convincing case in transforming the god I knew as a nameless, bodyless god in a monotheist religion into a god, among others in a pantheon, with his own name and a very well-described body.
Although the author provides background information about the themes she tackles, I nevertheless think that readers may have greater benefits from this book if they already have a good background on the main events talked about in The Old Testament and also in the several societies that populated the Middle East in the first millenium before common era.
This was a really eye-opening read, and I mean it in a big way, and I will never hear or read excerpts from The Bible in the same way.
She discusses what is said in The Bible and opposes that to what is usually accepted and what knowledge we have been accumulating about other religions at the same region and at about the same epoch, and makes a convincing case in transforming the god I knew as a nameless, bodyless god in a monotheist religion into a god, among others in a pantheon, with his own name and a very well-described body.
Although the author provides background information about the themes she tackles, I nevertheless think that readers may have greater benefits from this book if they already have a good background on the main events talked about in The Old Testament and also in the several societies that populated the Middle East in the first millenium before common era.
This was a really eye-opening read, and I mean it in a big way, and I will never hear or read excerpts from The Bible in the same way.