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God

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16 September 2021
608 pages
9781509867332
Imprint: Picador

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A learned but rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh's body. A book that will offend some but delight more.
Lively . . . [with] a wealth of scholarly detail and much gusto

Rivetingly fresh and stunning . . . I rather like this inexhaustibly powerful, shouting, bearded giant of a God, a fiery, fierce and startlingly “pagan” God, alive to his very fingertips, laughing at human hubris and singing with unbridled joy.

A marvelous conspectus of references to the divine body in ancient southwest Asian texts. But more than this, it is about recalibrating our understanding of these difficult texts to better understand ourselves.