Why God was an Iconoclast? The Visual and the Pictorial in Biblical Hierotopy

This study’s point of departure is a question: given that the Old Testament God so categorically prohibits all images, why is His Word, i.e., the Bible, so full of visions and visual imagery? In this paper, the issue is discussed in terms of a distinction between the visual, broadly understood, and...

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Main Author: Andrew Simsky
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University 2021-06-01
Series:Визуальная теология
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Online Access:https://visualtheology.ru/index.php/journal/article/view/49/28