Description: Divine Image : Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate, Paperback by Middlemas, Jill, ISBN 3161537246, ISBN-13 9783161537240, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Divine Image : Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution t
Number of Pages: 190 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Divine Image
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Subject: Theology, General, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Philosophy
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.4 Oz
Author: Jill Middlemas
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Religion
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Forschungen Zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
