Author
Aviad Kleinberg
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
September 2015
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Aviad Kleinberg
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Hardback
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
September 2015
£46.45
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The Sensual God
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In the Old Testament, God wrestles with a man (and loses). In the Talmud, God wriggles his toes to make thunder and takes human form to shave the king of Assyria. In the New Testament, God is made flesh and dwells among humans. For religious thinkers trained in Greek philosophy and its deep distaste for matter, sacred scripture can be distressing. A philosophically respectable God should be untainted by sensuality, yet the God of sacred texts is often embarrassingly sensual. Setting experts' minds at ease was neither easy nor simple, and, quite often, faith and logic were stretched to their limits. Focusing on examples from both Christian and Jewish sources, from the Bible to the Late Middle Ages, Aviad Kleinberg examines the way Christian and Jewish philosophers, exegetes, and theologians attempted to reconcile God's supposed ineffability with numerous biblical and post-biblical accounts of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and even tasting the almighty.
The conceptual entanglements ensnaring religious thinkers, and the strange, ingenious solutions they used to extricate themselves, tell us something profound about human needs and divine attributes, about faith, hope, and cognitive dissonance.
Author
Aviad Kleinberg
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
September 2015
Weight
386g
Page Count
200
Dimensions
145 x 211 x 23 mm
ISBN
9780231174701
ISBN-10
0231174705
Eden Code
4334902
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Author/Creator: Aviad Kleinberg
ISBN: 9780231174701
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: September 2015
Weight: 386g
Dimensions: 145 x 211 x 23 mm
Eden Code: 4334902