LEADER 03378nam 2200613 450 001 9910811218703321 005 20210511032655.0 010 $a0-231-54024-8 024 7 $a10.7312/klei17470 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459492 035 $a(EBL)2129050 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001531317 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12555718 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001531317 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11463496 035 $a(PQKB)11014119 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001285114 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2129050 035 $a(DE-B1597)458396 035 $a(OCoLC)972505137 035 $a(OCoLC)979628956 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231540247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2129050 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11086440 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818974 035 $a(OCoLC)918623268 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459492 100 $a20150819h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe sensual God $ehow the senses make the almighty senseless /$fAviad Kleinberg ; cover design, Mary Ann Smith 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-17470-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. Instability and Its Discontents --$t2. Loving God Like a Cow --$t3. Endless --$t4. Credo --$t5. Unimaginable: A Short Digression --$t6. Impossible --$t7. A Short Discourse on the Spiritual Senses --$t8. Invisible --$t9. Tasteless --$t10. Untouchable --$t11. Inaudible --$t12. Scentless --$tPost Scriptum --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn the Old Testament, God wrestles with a man (and loses). In the Talmud, God wriggles his toes to make thunder and takes human form to shave the king of Assyria. In the New Testament, God is made flesh and dwells among humans. For religious thinkers trained in Greek philosophy and its deep distaste for matter, sacred scripture can be distressing. A philosophically respectable God should be untainted by sensuality, yet the God of sacred texts is often embarrassingly sensual. Setting experts' minds at ease was neither easy nor simple, and often faith and logic were stretched to their limits. Focusing on examples from both Christian and Jewish sources, from the Bible to sources from the Late Middle Ages, Aviad Kleinberg examines the way Christian and Jewish philosophers, exegetes, and theologians attempted to reconcile God's supposed ineffability with numerous biblical and postbiblical accounts of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and even tasting the almighty. The conceptual entanglements ensnaring religious thinkers, and the strange, ingenious solutions they used to extricate themselves, tell us something profound about human needs and divine attributes, about faith, hope, and cognitive dissonance. 606 $aGod 615 0$aGod. 676 $a211 700 $aKleinberg$b Aviad M.$0599711 702 $aSmith$b Mary Ann 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811218703321 996 $aThe sensual God$93965116 997 $aUNINA