The book touts itself as an “astonishing and revelatory history” that “represents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers — with a distinctly male body, superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous.”The article also touches on Asherah and the goddess tradition in ancient Israel.“By mapping God’s body, rather than the Bible itself, we can better navigate the transformation of this ancient southern Levantine deity into the God with whom we are now culturally more familiar,” Stavrakopoulou writes.
The book is God: An Anatomy (Picador, 2021).
For another recent book edited by Professor Stavrakopoulou, see here. For more about her work on Asherah, see here.
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