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Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah. Analysing topics ranging from the bodily realities of gestation, subsistence, and death, and embodied performances of gender, power, and status, to the imagined realities of post-mortem and divine existence, the essays in this volume offer exciting n...

A fascinating, surprising and often controversial examination of the real God of the Bible, in all his bodily, uncensored, scandalous forms.

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In früheren Zeiten war Gott kein abstraktes Wesen, sondern hatte eine stark physische Komponente. Erst spät wurde die Lehre verbreitet, Gott habe keine Gestalt. Dieses Buch erzählt eine andere Geschichte: die des biblischen Gottes in all seinen körperlichen, unzensierten und skandalösen Formen. Indem es die theologische Fassade jüdisch-christlicher Frömmigkeit einreißt, offenbart es den göttlichen Körper, wie er einst gesehen wurde: übergroß u...

A fascinating, surprising and often controversial examination of the real God of the Bible, in all his bodily, uncensored, scandalous forms.

Ancestor veneration plays important- and hitherto overlooked- socio-religious and ideological roles in various and competing territorial claims as presented in the Hebrew Bible.

Beautifully written, passionately argued and frequently controversial, God: An Anatomy is cultural history on a grand scale. Three and a half thousand years ago, in the West Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god called El Elyon, the Most High. El Elyon had seventy children, each of whom became gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, kn...

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The Hebrew Bible portrays King Manasseh and child sacrifice as the most reprehensible person and the most objectionable practice within the story of 'Israel'. This monograph suggests that historically, neither were as deviant as the Hebrew Bible appears to insist. Through careful historical reconstruction, it is argued that Manasseh was one of Judah's most successful monarchs, and child sacrifice played a central role in ancient Judahite relig...

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