Fragile Dignity: Intercontextual Conversations on by L. Juliana Claassens, Klaas Spronk

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Those essays, in accordance with collaboration among Dutch and South African theological colleges, think of the idea that of human dignity. Reflecting on either theoretical points and social ramifications, they discover how households and society fail to guard human existence and dignity.

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Some scholars argue in favor of an early tolerant attitude toward the iconic representation of deities (Mettinger 1995); other scholars presume Israelite aniconism to be ancient (Schmidt 1990). The plundering Romans found no divine image when they sacked the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and the prohibition of cultic images probably goes back to vehement criticism of idols in Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah during the exile. This makes the probable coexistence of idol criticism and the formulation in the Priestly account of the creation of humankind in Gen 1 quite remarkable.

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