God: an Anatomy By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou [Audiobook]

Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Narrated by: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Beautifully written, passionately argued and frequently controversial, God: An Anatomy is cultural history on a grand scale.

Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god called El. El had 70 children, who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body, a wife, offspring and colleagues. He fought monsters and mortals. He gorged on food and wine, wrote books and took walks and naps. But he would become something far larger and far more abstract: the God of the great monotheistic religions.

But as Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou reveals, God’s cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written, and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society, whether we are believers or not. The Bible has shaped our ideas about God and religion, but also our cultural preferences about human existence and experience; our concept of life and death; our attitude to sex and gender; our habits of eating and drinking; our understanding of history. Examining God’s body, from his head to his hands, feet and genitals, she shows how the Western idea of God developed. She explores the places and artefacts that shaped our view of this singular God and the ancient religions and societies of the biblical world. And in doing so, she analyses not only the origins of our oldest monotheistic religions but also the origins of Western culture.

4.2M	01. Prologue.mp3
23M	02. Dissectig The Divine.mp3
23M	03. Grounded.mp3
18M	04. Footloose.mp3
23M	05. Sensational Feet.mp3
21M	06. Cover Up.mp3
20M	07. Phallic Masculinities.mp3
25M	08. Perfecting The Penis.mp3
19M	09. Devine Sex.mp3
26M	10. Back And Beyond.mp3
18M	11. Inside Out.mp3
32M	12. From Belly To Bowel.mp3
17M	13. Handedness.mp3
14M	14. Arm's Reach.mp3
21M	15. Divine Touch.mp3
28M	16. Holy Handbooks.mp3
17M	17. Face To Face.mp3
26M	18. Headstrong Beauty.mp3
19M	19. Profile.mp3
29M	20. Sense And Sensitivity.mp3
26M	21. Gasp And Gulp.mp3
11M	22. An Autopsy.mp3
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