Untertitel:: Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate
Verlag:: MOHR SIEBECK
Erschienen:: 01.01.2015
Seitenanzahl:: 190
EAN:: 9783161537493
Sprache:: Englisch
Format:: PDF
Schutz:: Dig. Wass.

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The Divine Image

Jill Middlemas

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.<br /><br />Born 1971; 2004 DPhil Oxon; 2007-10 Associate Professor at the Theology Faculty, University of Aarhus, Denmark; since 2011 Research Associate in the Old Testament Department, Faculty of Theology, University of Zurich.