"When Gods Were Men" : : The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature / / Esther J. Hamori.
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"...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
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