God's Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God - Christoph Markschies - Books - Baylor University Press - 9781481311687 - October 15, 2019
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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

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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