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A world-renowned scholar reveals how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the biblical era made us who we are today

A great mystery lies at the heart of the Bible. Early on, people seem to live in a world entirely foreign to our own. God appears to Abraham and Sarah, Jacob and others; God buttonholes Moses and Isaiah and Jeremiah and tells them what to say. Then comes the Great Shift, and Israelites stop seeing God or hearing the divine voice. Instead, later Israelites are "in search of God," reaching out to a distant, omniscient deity in prayers, as people have done ever since. What brought about this change?
The answers come from ancient texts, archaeology and anthropology, and even modern neuroscience. They concern the origins of the modern sense of self and the birth of a worldview that has been ours ever since. James Kugel, whose strong religious faith shines through his scientific reckoning with the Bible and the ancient world, has written a masterwork that will be of interest to believers and nonbelievers alike, a profound meditation on encountering God, then and now.

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  • Title The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times
  • Author James L. Kugel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin
  • Publication date 2018-09-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781328505927 / 1328505928
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.3 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Category Religion - Commentaries / Reference
  • Library of Congress subjects God (Judaism), Spirituality - Judaism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.311

About the author

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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