| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. In the Beginning: Time and the Figurative Forms of Creation -- 2. End-Times and Doom-Eagerness -- 3. The Power and the Glory: Divine Combatants, Heavenly Hosts, and Holy War -- 4. All in the Family: The Secret Sex Lives of Gods -- 5. Fathers and Sons: Violence and Sacrifice -- 6. Look Who's Talking -- and Writing: The Language of Heaven -- 7. The Great Figures of Life and Death: Dualism and Divine Judgment -- 8. The Ways of God to Men: Belief, Preordination, Predestination, Rewards and Punishments, Spiritual Economics -- 9. Prophecy and Plot: The Making of the Hero and the Villain -- 10. Prayer, Praise, and the War Plot -- 11. Holy Madness -- 12. Reflections |
| Summary |
Speaking of Gods analyzes the figurative-narrative creation of gods, their heavenly abodes, and behaviors, reaching back to the beginning of history in Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Persia and Greece, and continuing through the figures and narratives of a biblical tradition that includes the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- History
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Metaphor -- Religious aspects -- History
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History
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Religion -- History.
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Literature
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religious history.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects
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Metaphor -- Religious aspects
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Religion
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Religion.
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Sprache.
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Metapher.
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Erzähltechnik.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010030069 |
| ISBN |
9780230117679 |
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0230117678 |
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9781349291014 |
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1349291013 |
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1283067080 |
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9781283067089 |
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9786613067081 |
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6613067083 |
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