What is a God? by Jaco Gericke - 9780567683595

What is a God?Philosophical Perspectives on Divine Essence in the Hebrew Bible\nAuthor(s): Jaco Gericke\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780567683595, 978-0567683595\nSynopsis\nIn this book Jaco Gericke is concerned with different ways of approaching the question of what, according to the Hebrew Bible, a god was assumed to be. As a supplement to the tradition of predominantly linguistic, historical, literary, comparative, social-scientific and related ways of looking at the research problem, Gericke offers a variety of experimental philosophical perspectives that aim to take a step back from the scholarly discussion as it has unfolded hitherto in order to provide a new type of worry when looking at the riddle of what the biblical texts assumed made a god divine. \n\nConsisting of a brief history of philosophical interpretations of the concepts of whatness and essence from Socrates to Derrida, the relevan.