Genesis 1 Part 19
Rulers Below Continued
Michael Ryan Stotler
Part of Genesis
January 9, 2024

Image of God

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The Image of God = Humanity as God’s royal image

The ritual transformation of the divine image

mîs-pî (“mouth washing”) and pît-pî (“mouth opening”)

“The image in ancient Mesopotamia should not be conceptualized as a mere statue or monument, because modern conceptions of portraiture are too often attached to those ideas. The ancient “image” (Hebrew tselem / Akkadian tsalmu) is not a ‘replica’… after the transformation ritual the image becomes and extension or manifestation of the referent.” —STEPHEN HERRING, “A ‘TRANSUBSTANTIATED’ HUMANITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIVINE IMAGE AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN GENESIS 1:26-28,” VETUS TESTAMENTUM VOL. 58 (2008), PP. 483, 485, 488-89.
Genesis 2:7


Genesis 2:15

The Image of God in the Story-line of the Bible


Genesis 3:15


Genesis 5:1-3

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Bibliography

https://bibleproject.com/classroom-alpha/education-videos/session-27-rulers-below/

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lilith/

James Joyce, Ulysses, chap. 14, “Oxen of the Sun.”

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/hebrew-bible/lilith-in-the-bible-and-mythology/

https://bibleproject.com/classroom-alpha/education-videos/session-28-humans-image-or-idol-god/

https://bibleproject.com/classroom-alpha/education-videos/session-29-image-god-storyline-bible/