Skip to content
Search
Tech
Radios & Music Centres
Roberts Radios
Health & Wellbeing
Watches
Earphones
Lighting
Vinyls
Homeware
Home Essentials
Bedding & Towels
Lighting
RT Branded
Jigsaw Puzzles
Vinyls
RT Partners
CDs
Gardening - Yougarden
Gardening - Hayloft
Books
Fiction
Non-fiction
Crime, Thriller and Mystery
Autobiography/Biography
Cookbooks
Historical fact & fiction
Gifting
Gifts Under £50
Gifts Under £100
Gifts Under £200
Account
Site navigation
Search
Search
Basket
Menu
Site navigation
Tech
Tech
All
Radios & Music Centres
Roberts Radios
Health & Wellbeing
Watches
Earphones
Lighting
Vinyls
Lifemax High Vision LED Desk Light
Regular price
£49.99
View
Lifemax High Vision LED Floor Light
Regular price
£65.99
View
Steepletone 5-in-1 Compact Music System
Sold Out
View
Lifemax Fingertip Pulse Oximeter
Regular price
£42.99
View
Homeware
Homeware
All
Home Essentials
Bedding & Towels
Lighting
RT Branded
Jigsaw Puzzles
Vinyls
Himalayan Salt Lamp
Regular price
£34.99
View
Rechargeable Foldaway Fan
Regular price
£47.99
View
Tatton Pattern Bed Linen Set
From £120
View
Foldaway Foot Spa
Regular price
£53.99
View
RT Partners
CDs
Gardening - Yougarden
Gardening - Hayloft
Books
Books
All
Fiction
Non-fiction
Crime, Thriller and Mystery
Autobiography/Biography
Cookbooks
Historical fact & fiction
Raising Hare
Regular price
£22.50
View
The Kellerby Code - Johnny Sweet
Regular price
£14.99
View
Bombshell
Regular price
£18
View
Vanessa Bares All - Vanessa Feltz
Regular price
£18
View
Gifting
Gifting
All
Gifts Under £50
Gifts Under £100
Gifts Under £200
Radio Times: The War Years 1939 - 1946
Regular price
£9.99
View
Lifemax High Vision LED Desk Light
Regular price
£49.99
View
Radio Times: The Sixties
Regular price
£11.49
View
Steepletone Cassette Player - SCR315s
Sold Out
View
Account
Item added to basket.
View basket and check out
.
Close
Close
Free delivery over £10.00!
Close
Add to cart
Add to cart
God: An Anatomy
Sale
Regular price
£21.50
Tax included.
Default Title - Sold Out
Quantity
Sold Out
Beautifully written, passionately argued and frequently controversial,
God: An Anatomy
is cultural history on a grand scale.
Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god called El. El had seventy children, who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body, a wife, offspring and colleagues. He fought monsters and mortals. He gorged on food and wine, wrote books, and took walks and naps. But he would become something far larger and far more abstract: the God of the great monotheistic religions.
But as Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou reveals, God’s cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written, and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society, whether we are believers or not. The Bible has shaped our ideas about God and religion, but also our cultural preferences about human existence and experience; our concept of life and death; our attitude to sex and gender; our habits of eating and drinking; our understanding of history. Examining God’s body, from his head to his hands, feet and genitals, she shows how the Western idea of God developed. She explores the places and artefacts that shaped our view of this singular God and the ancient religions and societies of the biblical world. And in doing so she analyses not only the origins of our oldest monotheistic religions, but also the origins of Western culture.
Sold Out
Share
Share on Facebook
Tweet on Twitter
Pin on Pinterest
"Close (esc)"