A Wildly Sensual YAHWEH: The Controversial Genesis Stories in the Bible

by Brian J Shircliff

Overview

Volume 0 of The Naked Path of Prophet series: In the decisive way the Priestly Editors assembled Genesis thousands of years ago, we can witness the family-quarrel that still brews within every branch of Judaism, within every branch of Christianity, within every branch of Islam, and sadly sometimes between the branches of different religions all hailing from this same Bible. What's the quarrel? The hierarchical imagination trying to squash or even kill the prophetic/ecstatic imagination. The biblical Priestly Editors go to great lengths to cover over a primal voice of the Bible, a voice scholars call "J." This unnamed storycrafter "J" offers some wild glimpses of how the prophets came to be, glimpses that invalidate not only the priests' power but any human trying to hold power over another human. Sharpening our senses, we might note today the same family-quarrel brewing in our modern religions, in our political camps...indeed everywhere. This translation of Genesis removes the Priestly Editors' cover-ups and lets this first biblical storycrafter "J" be heard, maybe for the first time, as a clever prophetic voice with incredible imagination inviting us to ecstasy: YAHWEH.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781954688049
Publisher:	Vitality Cincinnati, Inc.
Publication date:	11/14/2021
Series:	The Naked Path of Prophet
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

Brian J. Shircliff is one of the original founding members of VITALITY Cincinnati in 2010. He taught religion and coached golf & swimming at St. Xavier High School (1997 - 2013) and taught religion at St. Ursula Academy (2018). Thanks to his excellent teachers, from the very beginning of his own teaching career, Brian realized that providing opportunities for people to share with one another stories and insights from texts and life was the very best way of education...a discovering together, a 'leading out' to new horizons. Everything is new again, or can be, every day through each of our rich perspectives shaped by imagination and sensation.He is fascinated by the impossible and incredibly important opportunity of trying to imagine or even guess at the human experiences that gave rise to ancient stories and traditions by reading the ancient texts and artifacts we have inherited...the inner basements within us ALL.As a somatic explorer and meditator, he directs programs at VITALITY and is excited to see graduates beginning their own small businesses through yoga, meditation, gardening, herbalism, sustainability, Movement Intelligence(R), Healing Touch and more that they go on to invent.His college studies in Hebrew and Greek and French (and recently Sanskrit) have deepened his understandings of life, something for which he is profoundly grateful and hopes more people will explore with him.