The Image of God
The Ancients
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Away Parts of the Red Sea in the Bible?
In the bible, god's arms and hands are one of the most kind of repeated body parts that we find in biblical traditions. They used so often both to talk about the ways in which he liberates and helps his people. One of the most common sorts of cult statues of s is the cult statue of a warrior god with their right arm raised up above their heads brandishing some kind of a weapon. It's the sense in which the iconography of ancient deities, but particularly warrior deities, informed these sot traditions.
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