Wilderness as Metaphor for God in the Hebrew Bible

by Robert Miller and Robert D. Miller II

The ancient Israelite authors of the Hebrew Bible were not philosophers, so what they could not say about God in logical terms, they expressed through metaphor and imagery. To present God in His most impenetrable otherness, the image they chose was the desert. The desert was Ancient Israels southern frontier, an unknown region that was always elsewhere: from that elsewhere, God has come -- God came from the South (Hab 3:3); God, when you marched from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789761077
• ISBN13: 9781789761078
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"