God the biography
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The Biography of a God
- Title
- The Biography of a God
- Subtitle
- Mahasu in the Himalayas
- Author
- Asaf Sharabi
- Price
- € ,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 01 - 05 -
- Dimensions
- x cm
- Series
- Religion and Society in Asia
- Categories
- Anthropology
- Contemporary Society
- Religion and Theology
- South Asia
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
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Table of contents
Notes on Transliteration
Acknowledgment
Meet Mahasu
1. Gods on the Road
Getting into the Field
The Devta Institution
2. A Stormy Biography
Mahasu Appears Vs.1
Mahasu Appears Vs.2
The Gods They are a-Changin’
3. The Four Brothers
Personalities and Identities
The Four Kings
Mahasu as Shiva
Gods Between Here and Everywhere
4. Local Traditions in Times of Change
Local Rituals Fade, Gods Persevere
From Carnivore to Vegetaria
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God: A Biography
Miles shows us God in the guise of a great literary character, the hero of the Old Testament. In a close, careful, and inspired reading of that testament - book by book, verse by verse - God is seen from his first appearance as Creator to his last as Ancient of Days. The God whom Miles reveals to us is a warrior whose greatest battle is with himself. We see God torn by conflicting urges. To his own sorrow, he is by turns destructive and creative, vain and modest, subtle and naive, ruthless and tender, lawful and lawless, powerful yet powerless, omniscient and blind. As we watch him change amazingly, we are drawn into the epic drama of his search for self-knowledge, the search that prompted him to create mankind as his mirror. In that mirror he seeks to examine his own reflection, but he also finds there a rival. We then witness God's own perilous passage from power to wisdom. For generations our culture's approach to the Bible has been more a reverential act th
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God: A Biography
literary criticism book bygd Jack Miles
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| Author | Jack Miles |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Religion |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
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| Publication place | United States |
| Media&#;type | Print (Hardcover) |
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God: A Biography is a non-fiction book by Jack Miles. The book recounts the tale of existence of the Abrahamic deity as the protagonist of the Hebrew Tanakh or Christian Bible Old Testament. The Tanakh and the Old Testament contain the same books, but the order of the books is different. Miles uses the ordering found in the Tanakh to provide the narrative on which his analysis is based. The book's central structure is that God's character develops progressively within the narrative. The accounts of God's actions in the various books are then used to deduce upplysning about God's nature and motivation. The book won the pris Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[1]