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The History of God
FIELD No. 84CE
Visual depiction of Genesis 32

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Vol. IV · Monotheism

Genesis 32

Jacob's face demanding a blessing before releasing his grip

the opponent's form caught between human and divine in the grey light before sunrise

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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 Visual depiction of 2 Chronicles 7

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