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.
