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

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by Jill Middlemas

    • Author

      Jill Middlemas

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Mohr Siebeck

    • Published

      January 2015

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

    Today's Price £73.13

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    Product Description

    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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    • Author

      Jill Middlemas

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Mohr Siebeck

    • Published

      January 2015

    • Weight

      318g

    • Dimensions

      155 x 232 x 13 mm

    • ISBN

      9783161537240

    • ISBN-10

      3161537246

    • Eden Code

      4708126

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    • Author/Creator: Jill Middlemas

    • ISBN: 9783161537240

    • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

    • Release Date: January 2015

    • Weight: 318g

    • Dimensions: 155 x 232 x 13 mm

    • Eden Code: 4708126

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