When gods were men : the embodied God in biblical and Near Eastern literature / Esther J. Hamori.

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 ish. In both texts, God as ish is described in graphically human terms. This type of divine appearance is identified here as the"ish theophany"...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Hamori, Esther J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Walter De Gruyter, ©2008.
Series:	Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 384.
Subjects:	Theophanies in the Bible. Anthropomorphism. Criticism, interpretation, etc.