The Image of God
The Ancients
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How Do You Correlate the Mobility of a God?
Francesca: The idea that gods were mobile, and they could withdraw from the earthly realm, was a really common sort of logical and cultural motive across ancient south west asia. And so we've got biblical stories about god walking through he has evening strolls in the garden of eden. We have stories about him, you know, walking along the roads and with abraham when he's crunned aside he wants to destroy sodom or not. So yer, moses sees god's bomb a. Haha. I mean, but francesca, this idea of the god taking up residence at yaway in jerusalem, can that work alongside? You mentioned it
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