When Gods Were Men: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature by Esther J. Hamori

When Gods Were Men: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature

Esther J. Hamori

185 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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In the texts of Genesis 18 and 32, God appears to a patriarch in person and is referred to by the narrator as a man, both times by the Hebrew word īsh. In both texts, God as īsh is described in graphically human terms. This type of divine appearan...

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