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This chapter begins with the biblical prohibition against visual representations of God and Jewish idol polemic. The chapter problematizes the assumed link between divine images and divine invisibility by looking at how idol polemic actually functions in ancient texts and at how Luke couches his own critique of idolatry. Luke’s critique mainly stems from his wider disparagement of Greco-Roman “polytheism,” not from an adherence to the abstract idea of God’s invisibility. Moreover, Luke also describes Israel’s God in anthropomorphic terms. Luke, like many Jews and Christians at this time, is thus wary of visual representations of the divine in the form of material images, but he verbally “images” the God of Israel as an embodied God. |
