"When Gods were men": the embodied God in biblical and Near Eastern literature
In the texts of Genesis 18 and 32, God appears to a patriarch in person and is referred to by the narrator as a man, both times by the Hebrew word ?sh. In both texts, God as ?sh is described in graphically human terms. This type of divine appearance is identified here as the "?sh theophany"...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin [u.a.]
De Gruyter
2008
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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (384)
Year: 2008 |
| Series/Journal: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
384 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Genesis
/ Anthropomorphism
/ Theophany
B Ancient Orient / Myth / Anthropomorphism / Theophany |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Theophanies in the Bible
B Anthropomorphism |
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