The Divine Image: Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate - Couverture souple

Middlemas, Jill

 
9783161537240: The Divine Image: Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate
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ISBN 10 : 3161537246 ISBN 13 : 9783161537240
Editeur : Mohr Siebeck, 2015

Synopsis

Although attempts to understand the growth of aniconism focus on the Pentateuchal legal material, scholars increasingly make reference to the prophetic literature to illuminate the debate. Jill Middlemas provides the first comprehensive analysis of the prophets with attention to rhetorical strategies that reflect anti-iconic thought and promote iconoclasm. After illuminating the idol polemics, which is the rhetoric most often associated with aniconism, she draws out how prophecy also exposes a reticence towards cultic symbols and mental images of Yahweh. At the same time the theme of incomparability as well as the use of metaphor and multiple imaging, paradoxically, reveal additional ways to express aniconic belief or the destabilization of a single divine image. Middlemas' analysis of prophetic aniconism sheds new light on interpretations of the most iconic expression in the Old Testament, the imago dei passages in Genesis, where God is said to create humanity in the divine image.

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À propos de l?auteur

Born 1971; 2004 DPhil Oxon; Associate Professor in Biblical Theology and Abrahamic Religions, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University.

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Éditeur
Mohr Siebeck
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3161537246
ISBN 13 
9783161537240
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
201
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