Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Kevin Graham" <kevlds AT hotmail.com>]

Hi Peter, you make some good points, and I'll try to be more diligent in my 
characterizations in the future.

== I think you would have to work hard to support your thesis that anyone, 
at least in the theological mainstream which condemned idolatry, believed 
that Yahweh had literal body parts, that the language about his body parts 
is to be understood as anything other than metaphorical.

Anyone in "current" theological mainstream, or are we talking about the 
mainstream in Ancient Judaism? It is the latter to which I refer. The 
argument of metaphor works in some verses, but certainly not all of them.