Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben and Jo Crick)]

On Tue 27 Aug 2002 (10:50:49 +0200), yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il wrote:
> The Tanakh is replete with anthropomorphisms. Witness the discussion on
> this list of God's anger and his "burning nose". God has human emotions:
> love, hate, anger, goodwill, satisfaction. Leaving aside for a moment all
> the ANE parallels and possible polytheistic backgrounds, how else can one
> describe God as a Divine being except in human - or animal (in practice God
> is described as bovine) - terms? What other possibilities do we have ?

 God created man in His image; not we Him in ours. Even so, anthropomorphic
 language is entirely appropriate, provided we don't claim divine attributes
 of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence! "Dust thou art, and to dust
 shalt thou return" (Genesis 3:19).

 Just a thought...
 Ben
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