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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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter De Gruyter,
©2008.
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| Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ;
Bd. 384. |
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| Summary: | 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". The phenomenon of God appearing in concrete human form is first distinguished from several other types of anthropomorphism, such as divine appearance in dreams. The ish theophany is viewed in relation to appearances of angels and other divine beings in the Bible, and in relation to anthropomorphi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-173) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110206715 3110206714 1282196669 9781282196667 |
| ISSN: | 0934-2575 ; |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |