Synopsis
Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize
A The Times Books of the Year
A fascinating, surprising and often controversial examination of the real God of the Bible, in all his bodily, uncensored, scandalous forms.
'One of the most remarkable historians and communicators working today' – Dan Snow
Three thousand years ago, in the lands we now call Israel and...
Details
01 September 2022608 pages
9781509867370Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A learned but rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh's body. A book that will offend some but delight more.Economist Best Books of the Year
Rivetingly fresh and stunning . . . I rather like this inexhaustibly powerful, shouting, bearded giant of a God, a fiery, fierce and startlingly “pagan ” God, alive to his very fingertips, laughing at human hubris and singing with unbridled joy.Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
Lively . . . [with] a wealth of scholarly detail and much gustoRowan Williams, New Statesman
Professors of Theology are imagined to be dull, gentle souls. This book, however, is a great rebel shout . . . A book that aims to upend the notion of a cloudy, spiritualised creator . . . instructive, vivid and frequently hilarious.Economist
