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No Graven Image?: Israelite Aniconism in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context

By Tryggve N. D. Mettinger

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Publisher
Coronet Books Incorporated
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24049330 bytes)
Pages
252\250
Time added
2020-08-15 13:38:42

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"An important book about a remarkable phenomenon. This is the first in-depth study of Israelite aniconism in the light of comparative material from the ancient Near East. In an introductory chapter Dr. Mettinger introduces a distinction between de facto aniconism and programmatic prohibition of images. He then goes on to demonstrate that de facto aniconism was a conventional practice in several West Semitic cultures. Finally, he sketches the development from West Semitic aniconism (with aniconic stelae as symbols of the divine) to Israelite iconoclasm."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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