The Throne and the Enthroned: On the Conceived Human Image of Yahweh in Iron II Jerusalem

Abstract

A seal impression found on a bulla from the City of David depicting a throne and two winged discs may corroborate the assumption that the conceived image of Yahweh in Iron II Jerusalem was of a human-like form. Through a succinct description on the emergence of the hegemonic concept that negates any (conceived) material aspects of Yahweh, a distinction is made between the practical-cultic nature of the biblical Image Ban and the Bible’s ontological perception of the god of Israel as a human-like entity in form and ‘nature’.