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God's Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God
Christoph Markschies
God's Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God
Christoph Markschies
While for many today the idea of an embodied God seems simplistic - even pedestrian - Christoph Markschies reveals that in antiquity, the educated and uneducated alike subscribed to this very idea. More surprisingly, the idea that God had a body was held by both polytheists and monotheists.
632 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 15, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9781481311687 |
Publishers | Baylor University Press |
Pages | 632 |
Dimensions | 237 × 165 × 44 mm · 952 g |
Translator | Edmonds, Alexander Johannes |
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