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The Divine Image: Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate

by Jill Middlemas

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 1.3 cm

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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.
The Divine Image: Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate and Lamentations: An Introduction and Study Guide
Lamentations: An Introduction and Study GuideThe Divine Image: Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate

  • Author

    Jill Middlemas

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    January 2015

  • Weight

    318g

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161537240

  • ISBN-10

    3161537246

  • Eden Code

    4708126

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