God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible

by Stephen D. Moore

Book Overview

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's Gym is about divinity, physical pain, and the visions of male perfectability.

Weaving together his obsession with human anatomy and dissection, an interest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415917573
• ISBN13: 9780415917575
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"