The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times

The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times

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 divineâ€”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 experienceâ€”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 ShiftÂ tells the story of a revolution in human consciousness and the enchantment of everyday life.Â This book will make believers and seekers think differently not just about the Bible, but about the entire history of the human imagination.
Country USA
Manufacturer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2020-06-11
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2020-06-11
Format	Kindle eBook

The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times

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