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The History of God
FIELD No. CF0A
Visual depiction of Genesis 17:1

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Vol. IV · Monotheism

Genesis 17:1

Abram becoming Abraham in the moment of divine naming

his face transfigured, the old name falling away as the new identity descends with the blessing

Organization
Hebrew Bible Theophanies
Time period
Bronze Age – Iron Age (mythic / Genesis–Kings narrative)
Location
Levant / Ancient Near East

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Biblical Scenes (Genesis–Kings I) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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