TY  - BOOK
AU  - Middlemas,Jill
TI  - Divine Image: Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate
T2  - Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe
SN  - 9783161537493
U1  - 291.211 
KW  - God -- History of doctrines
KW  - God
KW  - Image of God
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Aniconism and the Imago Dei -- Origins of Aniconism -- The Prophetic Contribution to the Aniconism Debate -- Aniconism and Anthropomorphism -- The Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2: Idol Polemics -- The Polemic Against the Idols Passages -- PAI Passages in Second Isaiah -- PAI Passages in Jeremiah and Habakkuk -- Summary of Aniconic Strategies in the PAI Passages -- Idol Polemics -- Terms of Divinity -- Demotion and Defamation -- Identification with Human Construction and Materials -- Programmatic Aniconism and the Destruction of Idols -- Summary of Aniconic Strategies in the General Idol Polemics -- Deliberate Misrepresentation -- Biblical Evidence of Deliberate Distortion -- Enlivening the Cult Statue and Biblical Distortion -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Iconoclasm: Aniconism & the Image of Yahweh -- Distancing the Divine from Concrete Forms -- Bull Iconography of the Northern Kingdom -- Monarch Iconography of the Southern Kingdom -- The Cherubim Throne -- The Ark -- Distancing the Divine from Human Figuration -- Formless Iconography and the Second Temple -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Incomparability, Metaphor, and Multiple Imaging -- Divine Incomparability -- Divine Incomparability and the Old Testament Prophets -- Divine Incomparability in the Ancient Near East -- Metaphor and Multiple Imaging -- Modeling Similes -- Divine Comparability in Second Isaiah -- Divine Comparability in Ezekiel -- Divine Comparability in Hosea -- Multiple Imaging in the Prophetic Literature -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: The Imago Dei and Prophetic Aniconism -- Priestly Divine Image Passages -- Second Isaiah Divine Image Passages -- Ezekiel Divine Images Passages -- Priestly and Prophetic Conceptions of the Imago Dei -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Sources; Dictionaries and Other Helps -- Secondary Literature -- Scripture Index -- Author Index
N2  - 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
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