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The History of God
FIELD No. E088
Visual depiction of Elah Shmaya

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. IV · Monotheism

Elah Shmaya

God of Heaven in Aramaic

the title of the Persian-period books of the Bible, inscribed on a scroll beside the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple

Organization
Abrahamic Monotheism
Time period
c. 1200 BCE – present
Location
Worldwide

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Names of the One God has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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