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The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis (Hardcover)
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The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis (Hardcover)
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
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The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the
ambiguous relationship between God and 'the angel of the Lord/God'
in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31. Genesis 32 is included since
it exhibits the same ambiguity and constitutes an inseparable part
of the Jacob saga. The study is set in the wider context of the
development of angelology and concepts of God in various forms of
early Judaism. When identifying patterns of interpretation in
Jewish texts, their chronological setting is less important than
the nature of the biblical source texts. For example, a common
pattern is the avoidance of anthropomorphism. In Genesis 'the angel
of the Lord' generally seems to be a kind of impersonal extension
of God, while later Jewish writings are characterized by a more
individualized angelology, but the ambivalence between God and his
angel remains in many interpretations. In Philo's works and Wisdom
of Solomon, the 'Logos' and 'Lady Wisdom' respectively have assumed
the role of the biblical 'angel of the Lord'. Although the
angelology of Second Temple Judaism had developed in the direction
of seeing angels as distinct personalities, Judaism still had room
for the idea of divine hypostases.
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