The Image of God
The Ancients
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What Is the Meaning of God in Early Judaism?
The idea that god's body was hidden. And once you kind of get the idea of a hidden body, you start to get the idea that nobody had ever seen it. But why do we get it? One reason is the impact of the loss of traditional forms of away worship. So things like the destruction of the temple in the sixth century b c e. It was rebuilt, but then destroyed again by the romans in 70 c e. The loss of cult statues, i think, was one reason cult statues were understood to render any deity vulnerable to looting, displacement, disfigurement, disabling. Better to get rid of cult statues theologically, and say, we don't need
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