How God became God: what scholars are really saying about God and the Bible

✍ Scribed by Richard M. Smoley

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;TarcherPerigee
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"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.;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.

✦ Table of Contents

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.

✦ Subjects

God--Biblical teaching;;Electronic book collection;God -- Biblical teaching