In scholarly but accessible terms, with many startling and controversial insights, this book examines the many models the humanity of God has taken throughout history and how each view has shaped our faith and world view. Renowned Bible scholar Dr. Yochanan Muffs explores the anthropomorphic evolution of the Divine Image, from creator of the cosmos to God the father, God the husband, God the king, God the ?chess-player, ? God the ultimate master. Muffs also examines how expressions of divine power, divine will, and divine love throughout the Bible have helped develop the contemporary human…mehr
In scholarly but accessible terms, with many startling and controversial insights, this book examines the many models the humanity of God has taken throughout history and how each view has shaped our faith and world view. Renowned Bible scholar Dr. Yochanan Muffs explores the anthropomorphic evolution of the Divine Image, from creator of the cosmos to God the father, God the husband, God the king, God the ?chess-player, ? God the ultimate master. Muffs also examines how expressions of divine power, divine will, and divine love throughout the Bible have helped develop the contemporary human condition and our enriching dialectic between faith and doubt. By illuminating the ever-changing face of God, Muffs reveals our own mechanisms for preserving our faith, nourishing our souls, and ensuring that we flourish?and thus showing us the true image of God.
Dr. Yochanan Muffs, for more than four decades a beloved teacher at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), holds the Distinguished Service Professorship in Bible and Religion at JTS and has made major contributions in biblical studies, Semitic languages, the history of the ancient Near East and Jewish religion and thought in general. Dr. Muffs's central work has been in the understanding of biblical text through comparative philological study. His two books, Studies in the Aramaic Legal Papyri from Elephantine and Love and Joy: Law, Language and Religion in Ancient Israel are unparalleled studies in this area.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Dr. David Hartman Preface Introduction: Monotheism, Anthropomorphism, and the Personhood of God I. The Biblical God in Relationship with a People 1. Paganism and Biblical Religion 2. The Essence of Biblical Process 3. Theological Anthropomorphism 4. The Gods and the Law 5. Family and Nation: Two Versions of National Formation II. The Divine Person 6. Biblical Anthropomorphism 7. The Living Machine 8. Divine Aspirations: Four Aspects of Kingship 9. Power, Love, and Justice: the Positive Expression of the Divine Will 10. On the Uses of Divine Power III. Aesthetic Sensibility and Religious Imagination 11. Image and Imagination in the Bible 12. Theology and Poetics 13. Toward a Phenomenology of the Senses IV. Joy, Love, and Liturgy 14. Intent, Volition, and the Roots of Rabbinic Prayer 15. Joy in the Liturgy 16. Love and Alacrity in Other Liturgies 17. The Priestly Benediction V. Encountering the Personhood of God 18. God and the World 19. A Jewish View of God's Relation to the World 20. Judaism and Secular Culture 21. On the Demythologizing of Religion Notes Credits General Index Index of Jewish Sources
Foreword by Dr. David Hartman Preface Introduction: Monotheism, Anthropomorphism, and the Personhood of God I. The Biblical God in Relationship with a People 1. Paganism and Biblical Religion 2. The Essence of Biblical Process 3. Theological Anthropomorphism 4. The Gods and the Law 5. Family and Nation: Two Versions of National Formation II. The Divine Person 6. Biblical Anthropomorphism 7. The Living Machine 8. Divine Aspirations: Four Aspects of Kingship 9. Power, Love, and Justice: the Positive Expression of the Divine Will 10. On the Uses of Divine Power III. Aesthetic Sensibility and Religious Imagination 11. Image and Imagination in the Bible 12. Theology and Poetics 13. Toward a Phenomenology of the Senses IV. Joy, Love, and Liturgy 14. Intent, Volition, and the Roots of Rabbinic Prayer 15. Joy in the Liturgy 16. Love and Alacrity in Other Liturgies 17. The Priestly Benediction V. Encountering the Personhood of God 18. God and the World 19. A Jewish View of God's Relation to the World 20. Judaism and Secular Culture 21. On the Demythologizing of Religion Notes Credits General Index Index of Jewish Sources
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