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PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100544520556
ISBN-139780544520554
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Book TitleGreat Shift : Encountering God in Biblical Times
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicJudaism / Rituals & Practice, History, Judaism / Theology, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Publication Year2017
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion
AuthorJames L. Kugel
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight25 oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2017-019809
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Reviews"Lively, inviting account...the author is at home in every era from that of the ancient texts to our own, and he makes for an excellent guide. Biblical exegesis at its best: a brilliant and sensitive reading of ancient texts, all with an eye to making them meaningful to our time by making sense of what they meant in their own." -- Kirkus Reviews , STARRED , "Biblical scholarship has reached considerable agreement for most scholars in the last 75 years, and "The Great Shift" is the culmination of its maturity. Readers of all stripes who want to make sense of God's Word will find this landmark book written with great erudition, clarity and, dare I say it, a humor that seems to be God's peeking through." -- Michael D. Langan, NBC-2.com "Lively, inviting account...the author is at home in every era from that of the ancient texts to our own, and he makes for an excellent guide. Biblical exegesis at its best: a brilliant and sensitive reading of ancient texts, all with an eye to making them meaningful to our time by making sense of what they meant in their own." -- Kirkus Reviews , STARRED "Provocative... likely to interest both believers and nonbelievers with some familiarity with the Old Testament." -- Booklist, "Fascinating."-- The New York Times "A magnificent job of bringing important ideas from the academy to a broad readership...Kugel gives readers a sense of history's convoluted texture, its ironies, and thus its beauty."-- The Jewish Review of Books " The Great Shift is a carefully crafted literary work that is both an indictment of modernity and a hope that tightly closed modern people can regain the unique "semipermeable" qualities that defined spiritual lives of long ago."-- Reform Judaism "Biblical scholarship has reached considerable agreement for most scholars in the last 75 years, and The Great Shift is the culmination of its maturity. Readers of all stripes who want to make sense of God's Word will find this landmark book written with great erudition, clarity and, dare I say it, a humor that seems to be God's peeking through." -- Michael D. Langan, NBC-2.com "Lively, inviting account . . . the author is at home in every era from that of the ancient texts to our own, and he makes for an excellent guide. Biblical exegesis at its best: a brilliant and sensitive reading of ancient texts, all with an eye to making them meaningful to our time by making sense of what they meant in their own." -- Kirkus Reviews , STARRED "Provocative . . . likely to interest both believers and nonbelievers with some familiarity with the Old Testament." -- Booklist, "Biblical scholarship has reached considerable agreement for most scholars in the last 75 years, and The Great Shift is the culmination of its maturity. Readers of all stripes who want to make sense of God's Word will find this landmark book written with great erudition, clarity and, dare I say it, a humor that seems to be God's peeking through." -- Michael D. Langan, NBC-2.com "Lively, inviting account . . . the author is at home in every era from that of the ancient texts to our own, and he makes for an excellent guide. Biblical exegesis at its best: a brilliant and sensitive reading of ancient texts, all with an eye to making them meaningful to our time by making sense of what they meant in their own." -- Kirkus Reviews , STARRED "Provocative . . . likely to interest both believers and nonbelievers with some familiarity with the Old Testament." -- Booklist, "Lively, inviting account...the author is at home in every era from that of the ancient texts to our own, and he makes for an excellent guide. Biblical exegesis at its best: a brilliant and sensitive reading of ancient texts, all with an eye to making them meaningful to our time by making sense of what they meant in their own." -- Kirkus Reviews , STARRED, "Lively, inviting account...the author is at home in every era from that of the ancient texts to our own, and he makes for an excellent guide. Biblical exegesis at its best: a brilliant and sensitive reading of ancient texts, all with an eye to making them meaningful to our time by making sense of what they meant in their own." -- Kirkus Reviews , STARRED "Provocative... likely to interest both believers and nonbelievers with some familiarity with the Old Testament." -- Booklist
SynopsisA world-renowned scholar brings a lifetime of study to reveal how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical Era made us who we are today Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine--wrestling an angel, addressing a burning bush, issuing forth prophecy without any choice in the matter? These stories spoke very differently to their original audience than they do to us, and they reflect a radically distinct understanding of reality and the human mind. Yet over the course of the thousand-year Biblical Era, encounters with God changed dramatically. As James L. Kugel argues, this transition allows us to glimpse a massive shift in human experience--the emergence of the modern, Western sense of self. In this landmark work, Kugel fuses revelatory close readings of ancient texts with modern scholarship from a range of fields, including neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, and archaeology, to explain the origins of belief, worship, and the sense of self, and the changing nature of God through history. In the tradition of books like The Swerve and The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Great Shift tells the story of a revolution in human consciousness and the enchantment of everyday life. This book will make believers and seekers think differently not just about the Bible, but about the entire history of the human imagination., A world-renowned scholar brings a lifetime of study to reveal how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical Era made us who we are today Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine--wrestling an angel, addressing a burning bush, issuing forth prophecy without any choice in the matter? These stories spoke very differently to their original audience than they do to us, and they reflect a radically distinct understanding of reality and the human mind. Yet over the course of the thousand-year Biblical Era, encounters with God changed dramatically. As James L. Kugel argues, this transition allows us to glimpse a massive shift in human experience--the emergence of the modern, Western sense of self. In this landmark work, Kugel fuses revelatory close readings of ancient texts with modern scholarship from a range of fields, including neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, and archaeology, to explain the origins of belief, worship, and the sense of self, and the changing nature of God through history. In the tradition of books like The Swerve and The Better Angels of Our Nature,The Great Shift tells the story of a revolution in human consciousness and the enchantment of everyday life. This book will make believers and seekers think differently not just about the Bible, but about the entire history of the human imagination., One of the world's leading Bible scholars summarizes a career of study to ask the biggest questions: how has the nature of God changed over time? What are the origins of belief and religion? Why is the modern West so unusual in its worldview?
LC Classification NumberBM610.K79 2017
