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Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Early Judaism

Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Early Judaism

Orlov, Andrei A.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Biblical World

JudaismAncient History General

ISBN10: 1032105895
ISBN13: 9781032105895
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 12 2021
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Adam, Enoch, Jacob, and Moses.

The study treats the concept of divine knowledge as the embodied divine presence in its full historical and interpretive complexity by tracing the theme through a broad variety of ancient Near Eastern and Jewish sources, including Mesopotamian traditions of cultic statues, creational narratives of the Hebrew Bible, and later Jewish mystical testimonies. Orlov demonstrates that some biblical and pseudepigraphical accounts postulate that the theophany expresses the unique, corporeal nature of the deity that cannot be fully grasped or conveyed in some other non-corporeal symbolism, medium, or language. The divine presence requires another presence in order to be transmitted. To be communicated properly and in its full measure, the divine iconic knowledge must be written on a new living body which can hold the ineffable presence of God through a newly acquired ontology.

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