When Gods Were Men: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature

by Esther J. Hamori

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This study begins with the analysis of a type of divine appearance in the Old Testament, here called human theophany, in which God is described as having a concrete human form. The book includes a delineation of various types of anthropomorphism (such as God appearing in concrete human form, as opposed to only in dreams), analysis of the implications of human theophany for...more

Hardcover, 185 pages

Published May 15th 2008 by Walter de Gruyter

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