When Gods Were Men: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature

ISBN-13: 9783110203486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 201 str.

Esther J. Hamori

Opis

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

Recenzje

"Die interessante Arbeit, die die Exegese biblischer Texte in den Kontext der altorientalischen Literatur stellt und zudem mit religionsphilosophischen Fragen verbindet, schließt mit einem ausführlichen Literaturverzeichnis sowie mit verschiedenen Indizes."B. Ego in: Zeitschrift für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 122/2010 "[..]well-researched and often humoroulsy written monograph"L.-S. Tiemeyer in: Book List - Society for Old Testament Study 2009

O autorze

Esther J. Hamori, Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA.