The Image of God
The Ancients
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The Body Language of God
Sotof taking in ancient visual culture. So iconography and various archeotical artifacts alongside biblical references. It looks like god was probably understood to have this kind of blue black hair, a beautiful groomed beard, and this kind of reddish tint to his skin. This was very common, like, deities almost gave off this reddi brec glow. And red was very much the colour of virility. But he, you know, gradually, at the latest, by the second century b c, when the book of daniel was written, god was understood to look quite different. He looked more like an aged scribe, like a tora scribe,. He had white
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