Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 06/09/2005 12:20, Kevin Graham wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
I was also referring to the mainstream in ancient Judaism, or perhaps 
more accurately mainstream Israelite religion, as represented by the 
biblical authors. I would be interested to see examples of biblical 
authors attributing body parts to God which cannot be understood as 
metaphor. This might end up as a more illuminating discussion than the 
one about qualifications.


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