(The Asherah
By William Hayes Ward
The American Journal of Semitic
Languages and Literatures, Vol. 19,
No. 1. (Oct., 1902), pp. 33-44)
Is that urge to merge similar to the evolutionists'? There is no lizard-bird or ape-man, but there's a bull-fish. There is nothing new under the sun.
An interesting contrast, "The classic ark theology has its center in the notion of the aniconic God. The throne is empty: the place of the image is occupied by the unseen God. The official Jerusalem cult was imageless in the sense that it lacked a direct symbol for JHWH. The cherub throne with the ark can not be regarded as such a symbol. Nor can Nehushtan (2 Kgs 18,4). The absence of images is here early a fact. . . the official cult was early aniconic: over the cherub throne and ark, the god of Israel was enthroned in unseen majesty. The place usually occupied by the deity is empty."
(Divine Images and Aniconism in Ancient Israel
Review by Theodore J. Lewis
Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol.
118, No. 1. (Jan. - Mar., 1998), pp. 36-53)
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