The Great Shift ─ Encountering God in Biblical Times

ISBN13：9780544520554
出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
作者：James L. Kugel; Ellen Geiger
出版日：2017/09/12
裝訂／頁數：精裝／288頁
規格：22.9cm*15.2cm*4.4cm (高/寬/厚)
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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.

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JAMES L. KUGEL is the Starr Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University. His many books include The Bible As It Was, winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and How to Read the Bible, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for the best book of 2007.

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