Images of God in the Old Testament

This book is about the many faces of the God of Israel who may be covered by reading the different parts of the Old Testament. It treats the scriptures as a reference library assembled because the texts all have something to say about God, who in some sense is a character in each book, and is presented differently each time. In exploring the nature of "the God of the Old Testament, " Mary Mills places side by side these different -- often contradictory -- aspects of the deity, and allows them to comment on each other.The God who is revealed, in a world where all human activity is also the scene of divine action, is a multifaceted character challenging human beings to find, within the diversity of images and language, the face of God that offers them a means of communication with the sphere of transcendent order and unity.