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How God became God : what scholars are really saying about God and the Bible / Richard Smoley.

Smoley, Richard, 1956- (author.).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780399185557
ISBN: 0399185550
Physical Description: xxx, 286 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A TarcherPerigee Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286).
Formatted Contents Note:	Groundwater: the problem of God -- The defective scripture: what we now know about the Bible -- The haze of legend: from the Flood to the Judges -- Monarchy, united and divided: from Saul to the fall of Israel -- Who was Yahweh? -- Fall and return: the exile and its aftermath -- Jesus in his context -- The life of Jesus: origins -- What Jesus taught -- The life of Jesus: the public career -- The birth of the Church -- Paul: the great apostle -- Revelation: the overthrow of the wicked angels -- The Master and two Marys -- Practical mysticism.