
A Body That’s Divine
A recent book catalogs the Old Testament’s physical descriptions of God, who ate, probably drank, got mistaken for an ordinary man, and was likely circumcised.
God: An Anatomy
by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
April 6, 2023 issue
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Anna Della Subin is the author of Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine. (April 2023)
A Body That’s Divine
A recent book catalogs the Old Testament’s physical descriptions of God, who ate, probably drank, got mistaken for an ordinary man, and was likely circumcised.
God: An Anatomy
by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
April 6, 2023 issue
The Rules of the Confidence Game
The Book of Charlatans provides an unusual glimpse into the street life of medieval Islamic societies rarely captured in more elevated Arabic literary sources.
The Book of Charlatans
by Jamal al-Din ‘Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari, edited by Manuela Dengler and translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies
May 27, 2021 issue
How Arabic Made It New
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut
by Robyn Creswell
November 7, 2019 issue
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