God's Body: The Anthropomorphic God in the Old Testament
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Preface for English Edition -- Chapter 1: Introduction - An investigation into the external body of God as it can be portrayed pictorially -- 1.1 God's external form as the focus of our investigation -- 1.2...
| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Preface for English Edition -- Chapter 1: Introduction - An investigation into the external body of God as it can be portrayed pictorially -- 1.1 God's external form as the focus of our investigation -- 1.2 God's external form between the poles of recent research on depictions and the body -- 1.3 Anthropomorphisms, role ascriptions and comparisons -- 1.4 The structure of this book -- Chapter 2: The 'picture' of God - Yhwh in the corporeal form of man -- 2.1 Images of God and the prohibition of images -- 2.2 The corporeal depiction of Yhwh and the corporeal depiction of man -- 2.3 Israelite drawings/graphic depictions of man -- Chapter 3: God in human form - Anthropomorphism as a theological problem -- Chapter 4: Deciphering the language of images and of corporeal depictions -- 4.1 The 'language' of images and verbal depictions -- 4.2 The basic framework of pictorial language: The concept of body and depiction in Ancient Israelite and Ancient Oriental images -- 4.3 Function rather than form in depictions of the body or of parts of the body -- 4.4 What is common to material and verbal corporeal depictions? -- Chapter 5: God's body (the external figure) - Its theological message -- 5.1 The significance of the choice of which parts of the body are depicted -- 5.2 The functions of the integral (external) parts of the body -- 5.3 God's body as a theological message -- 5.4 Anthropomorphism in the pantheons of neighbouring religions -- 5.5 Observations on the chronological development of anthropomorphism in the Old Testament -- Chapter 6: The picture of God in the Old Testament and of mankind made in the image of God -- Elohim -- let us make -- ᴐādām -- brᴐ/to create -- male and female -- ṣælæm (pronounced: zäläm) -- demût -- rdh / tread on (rule) -- Summary Chapter 7: The theological significance of God's body in the Old Testament -- 7.1 Pictorial and corporeal concepts as prerequisites for understanding God's body in the Old Testament -- 7.2 The complexity of body theology -- 7.3 Convergence with basic Old Testament theological statements -- 7.4 God's body and monotheism -- 7.5 God's divinity and his human figure -- 7.6 Final comments -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of References |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (207 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0567655970 |