What Is the Image of God?

In the middle ages, there was a tendency to associate the image of god with a specific faculty that humans have. It's an ability that we have, on this view. And so you would want to find some ability that humans have that animals either,. ideally one that animals don't have at all. In the ancient world, and especially in egypt, which is where the israelites had just come from, am, the king, the pharaoh, was regarded as the image ofgod.