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Vol. IV · Monotheism
Memra
the Aramaic divine Word that acts on God's behalf in Targum tradition
inscribed in Jewish Aramaic calligraphy with the emanating word becoming the creative force of the world
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.