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Book: Archetypes in Religion and Beyond

Chapter: f. Yahweh, Idolatry, and Literacy

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.43689

Blurb:

The archetypal insight of the Hebrew Bible is its emphasis on God as schematic rather than as a specific symbol, expressed in the forbidding of idolatry. This tries to avoid projection for pre-literate people, but Judeo-Christian tradition has often missed the bigger issue of the idolatry of concepts by the literate.

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