Where the Gods Are(English, Hardcover, Smith Mark S.)

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Where the Gods Are(English, Hardcover, Smith Mark S.) is written by Smith Mark S. and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300209223 (ISBN 10) and 9780300209228 (ISBN 13).

The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, and ancient iconography, which attempt to describe deities in relation to humans. Smith uses a novel approach to show how the Bible depicts God in human and animal forms-and sometimes both together. Mediating between the ancients' theories and the work of modern thinkers, Smith's boldly original work uncovers the foundational understandings of deities and space.