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Ausgabe:

März/2017

Spalte:

202–203

Kategorie:

Altes Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Middlemas, Jill

Titel/Untertitel:

The Divine Image. Prophetic Aniconic Rhetoric and Its Contribution to the Aniconism Debate.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014. XI, 190 S. = Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe, 74. Kart. EUR 59,00. ISBN 978-3-16-153724-0.

Rezensent:

Michael B. Dick

Jill Middlemas addresses her book to those broadly involved in theology as well as to non-specialists interested in how we image and speak of God. She succeeds quite well; her book is detailed, methodical with ample bibliography. Her overall goal is to exam-ine rhetorical strategies used by the prophets to further mono-theistic and aniconic views of Yahweh. She prefers a rhetorical approach, in fact, she insists on the priority of rhetorical over his-torical analyses (150).
The book’s five chapters clearly indicate how Middlemas has broadened the study of Israelite aniconism. Chapter 1 »Aniconism and the Imago Dei« investigates terminology (e. g. de facto and programmatic aniconism, monotheism, idol, iconoclasm, etc.) and provides an extensive survey of earlier ...


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