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Symbol and theology in early Judaism

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In he fifth and sixth centuries C.E., new mode of talking about God took shape, both in synagogue art and in rabbinic writing. This new approach appealed not to proportional but to symbolic modes of discourse. In symbolic discourse attitudes and emotions rather than proportions are conveyed and evoked: faith as confidence in God rather than faith as the sacrament as the statement of truth about God..

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296.309 NEU s

Z. HANDIMAN

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296.309 NEU s

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Minneapolis : Fortress Press., 1991

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xxi,242p.; 23 cm.

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English

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0-8006-2456-4

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296.309

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SYMBOLISM - RABBINICAL LITERATURE

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