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The divine image : prophetic aniconic rhetoric and its contribution to the aniconism debate / Jill Middlemas.
Van Pelt Library BS1199.I34 M54 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middlemas, Jill Anne, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 1611-4914 2. Reihe ; 74.
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe, 1611-4914 ; 74
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Prophets.
- Idols and images--Biblical teaching.
- Idols and images.
- Image (Theology)--History of doctrines.
- Image (Theology).
- Bible. Prophets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 190 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2014.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Aniconism and the Imago Dei 1
- Origins of Aniconism 5
- The Prophetic Contribution to the Aniconism Debate 9
- Aniconism and Anthropomorphism 15
- The Structure of the Book 18
- Chapter 2 Idol Polemics 21
- The Polemic Against the Idols Passages 23
- PAI Passages in Second Isaiah 25
- PA1 Passages in Jeremiah and Habakkuk 30
- Summary of Aniconic Strategies in the PAI Passages 32
- Idol Polemics 36
- Terms of Divinity 37
- Demotion and Defamation 40
- Identification with Human Construction and Materials 42
- Programmatic Aniconism and the Destruction of Idols 44
- Summary of Aniconic Strategies in the General Idol Polemics 45
- Deliberate Misrepresentation 46
- Biblical Evidence of Deliberate Distortion 47
- Enlivening the Cult Statue and Biblical Distortion 49
- Conclusions 53
- Chapter 3 Iconoclasm: Aniconism & the Image of Yahweh 55
- Distancing the Divine from Concrete Forms 57
- Bull Iconography of the Northern Kingdom 59
- Monarch Iconography of the Southern Kingdom 66
- The Cherubim Throne 69
- The Ark 80
- Distancing the Divine from Human Figuration 83
- Formless Iconography and the Second Temple 88
- Conclusions 89
- Chapter 4 Incomparability, Metaphor, and Multiple Imaging 91
- Divine Incomparability 93
- Divine In comparability and the Old Testament Prophets 93
- Divine Incomparability in the Ancient Near East 102
- Metaphor and Multiple Imaging 104
- Modeling Similes 109
- Divine Comparability in Second Isaiah 110
- Divine Comparability in Ezekiel 116
- Divine Comparability in Hosea 118
- Multiple Imaging in the Prophetic Literature 122
- Conclusions 123
- Chapter 5 The Imago Dei and Prophetic Aniconism 125
- Priestly Divine Image Passages 127
- Second Isaiah Divine Image Passages 135
- Ezekiel Divine Images Passages 141
- Priestly and Prophetic Conceptions of the Imago Dei 144
- Conclusions 148
- Chapter 6 Conclusions 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783161537240
- 3161537246
- OCLC:
- 900394832
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