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005			20221103112621.0
008			210612r20222021nyuabf e b 001 0 eng
010			_a2021026356
020			_a0525520457
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035			_a(OCoLC)1240413353
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050		4	_aBT180 .C67 _bS738 2022
082	0	0	_a231/.4 _223
100	1		_aStavrakopoulou, Francesca,
245	1	0	_aGod : _ban anatomy / _cFrancesca Stavrakopoulou.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2022.
300			_aix, 592 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (chiefly color), maps ; _c25 cm.
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 501-542) and index.
505	0		_aDissecting the divine -- Grounded -- Footloose -- Sensational feet -- Cover up -- Phallic masculinities -- Perfecting the penis -- Divine sex -- Back and beyond -- Inside out -- From belly to bowel -- Handedness -- Arm's reach -- Divine touch -- Holy handbooks -- Face to face -- Headstrong beauty -- Profile -- Sense and sensitivity -- Gasp and gulp -- An autopsy.
520			_a"An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers--with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous. The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ. The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male. Here is a portrait--arrived at through the author's close examination of and research into the Bible--of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world. From head to toe--and every part of the body in between--this is a god of stunning surprise and complexity, one we have never encountered before"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aGod _xCorporeality _xHistory of doctrines.
650		0	_aImage of God _xHistory of doctrines.
650		0	_aMasculinity of God _xHistory of doctrines.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aStavrakopoulou, Francesca. _tGod _bFirst United States edition _dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021 _z9780525520467 _w(DLC) 2021026357.
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