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Visual depiction of Memra

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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

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.