The disappearance of God
a divine mystery
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1995 - Little, Brown and Co., Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
83,750 words, Guess
Page Count
335 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1279591M
- ISBN-100316294349
- OCLC Control Number32167210
- OCLC Control Numberdisappearanceofg0000frie
- Library of Congress Control Number95011393
and 2 more
- Goodreads430976
- LibraryThing662837
Classifications
- DDC231
- LCCBS1192.6 .F75 1995
Description
In this bold and illuminating new work, Richard Elliott Friedman probes a chain of mysteries that concern the presence or absence of God. He begins with a fresh, insightful reading of the Hebrew Bible, revealing the profound mystery and significance of the disappearance of God there. Why does the God who is known through miracles and direct interaction at the beginning of the Bible gradually become hidden, leaving humans on their own by the Bible's end? How is it possible that the Bible, written over so many centuries by so many authors, depicts this diminishing visible presence of God - and the growing up of humankind - so consistently? Why has this not been common knowledge? Friedman then investigates this phenomenon's place in the formation of Judaism and Christianity.
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