The God of The Hebrew Bible Has a Literal Body: Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou

The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ. The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male.

Here is a portrait — arrived at through the author's close examination of and research into the Bible — of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world. From head to toe — and every part of the body in between — this is a god of stunning surprise and complexity, one we have never encountered before.

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Contents:
00:00 - Intro
02:50 - God Against Philosophy
07:06 - Ancient Concepts of God
10:17 - Developments of God in the Bible
12:20 - God Sex?
17:24 - Mistranslating Sul?
19:54 - Euphemism in Genesis
22:40 - Angel Parts?
23:50 - Sex Jokes in the Bible
25:00 - Eve Impregnated by Yahweh?
28:10 - Circumcision
33:00 - Did circumcision replace child sacrifice?
35:12 - Two Source Theory of the Pentateuch
37:00 - Manasseh and Child Sacrifice
39:40 - Part Bone
42:04 - Historical David
43:52 - Jesus Mythicism
45:49 - Khribet Qeiyafa
47:10 - Stavrakopoulou on Judaism
48:04 - Newest scholarship in Oxyrhynchus papyri
50:50 - Yahweh being Circumcised
53:54 - Jacob Wrestling God
55:24 - Radical Reduction of the Pantheon
59:05 - Charismatic Leaders?
59:39 - Ancient Greek Pizza
01:00:31 - God's Breath
01:00:52 - Marcionism?
01:04:09 - Outro