The Divine Image
Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate
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Obwohl Versuche das Wachstum des Anikonismus zu verstehen, sich auf die Gesetzestexte des Pentateuch konzentrieren, beziehen sich immer mehr Wissenschaftler auf die prophetische Literatur, um die Debatte zu beleuchten. Jill Middlemas liefert die erste umfassende Untersuchung der Propheten mit dem Fokus auf rhetorische Strategien, die anti-ikonisches Gedankengut reflektieren und Ikonoklasmus vertreten.
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.
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.
Born 1971; 2004 DPhil Oxon; Associate Professor in Biblical Theology and Abrahamic Religions, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.1.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe |
| Verlagsort | Tübingen |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 320 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Altes Testament • Altes Testament / AT • Bilderverbot (Altes Testament) • dei • Götzenbilder • Iconoclasm • IMAGO • Imago Dei • incomparability • Metaphor |
| ISBN-13 | 9783161537240 / 9783161537240 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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