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YHWH's Divine Images
YHWH's Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach | Daniel O. McClellan
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In YHWH's Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach, Daniel O. McClellan addresses the longstanding question of how it is that divine images could be referred to as if they both were and were not the deities they represented. Drawing insights from the fields of cognitive linguistics and the cognitive science of religion, McClellan develops a theoretical framework for divine agency and divine images in ancient Southwest Asia that explains this apparent paradox. He then applies that framework to the Hebrew Bible to show that the presence of the God of Israel was similarly manifested through material media devoted to precisely that purpose.
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YHWH‘S Divine Images, by Dan McClellan (2022)
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Premise: An academic study of Ancient Near Eastern conceptions of divinity and what they might mean for the interpretation of the Tanakh/Old Testament.

Review: The author here is a popular social media personality in the informed religion space, so I was intrigued when his academic work found its way to me. Cont.

Mattsbookaday As someone with a linguistics background, I appreciated the cognitive approach he took to the study, and his findings were in keeping with some other ideas I‘ve seen about the issue coming from less academic places. (It‘s always nice to see when academic work validates one‘s ‘pet‘ ideas!) 1w
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