God's Body - The Anthropomorphic God in the Old Testament Wagner AndreasPaperback
God's Body - The Anthropomorphic God in the Old Testament Wagner AndreasPaperback Images of the body in ancient Near Eastern civilizations are radically different from body images today, which in…
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God's Body - The Anthropomorphic God in the Old Testament Wagner AndreasPaperback
Images of the body in ancient Near Eastern civilizations are radically different from body images today, which in turn creates significant consequences for our understanding of the biblical notion of God's human shape and the frequent and widespread misconceptions therein. He contrasts these with contemporary models and makes the matter of the Old Testament concept of God's human form accessible and clear.Wagner begins by introducing readers to aspects of anthropomorphism, the study of body parts, and Israel's basic understanding of the human body. Andreas Wagner illuminates such frequent and widespread misconceptions, and reveals the sometimes distant pictorial world of ancient body images.
Wagner draws He then turns specifically to the body of God, analysing why and how certain body parts are emphasized or regularly employed in the biblical text when it tries to describe God.
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