God's Body: The Anthropomorphic God in the Old Testament

by Andreas Wagner

Book Overview

Images of the body in ancient Near Eastern civilizations are radically different from body images today, which in turn creates significant consequences for our understanding of the biblical notion of God's human shape and the frequent and widespread misconceptions therein. Andreas Wagner illuminates such frequent and widespread misconceptions, and reveals the sometimes distant pictorial world of ancient body images. He contrasts these with contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567655997
• ISBN13: 9780567655998
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"