The Face of Yahweh?
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Footnotes
1. See Shua Kisilevitz and Oded Lipschits, “Another Temple in Judah! The Tale of Tel Moẓa,” BAR, January/February 2020; for more on Solomon’s Temple, see also Madeleine Mumcuoglu and Yosef Garfinkel, “The Puzzling Doorways of Solomon’s Temple,” BAR, July/August 2015.
Endnotes
1.
On the Khirbet Qeiyafa head, see Yosef Garfinkel, “The Iron Age Clay Figurine Head,” in Yosef Garfinkel, Saar Ganor, and Michael G. Hasel, eds., Khirbet Qeiyafa Vol. 4, Excavation Report 2009–2013: Art, Cult and Epigraphy (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2018), pp. 143–163.
2.
Tallay Ornan, A Man and His Land. Highlights from the Moshe Dayan Collection (Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1986), pp. 31–32 (no. 9, the strainer jug) and p. 57 (no. 22, the rider on a horse).
3.
Nicolas Wyatt, “The Titles of the Ugaritic Storm-God,” Ugarit-Forschungen 24 (1992), pp. 403–425; Moshe Weinfeld, “‘Rider of the Clouds’ and ‘Gatherer of the Clouds,’” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 5 (1973), pp. 421–426.
4.
On this debate, see Karel van der Toorn, ed., The Image and the Book: Iconic Cults, Aniconism and the Rise of Book Religion in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Leuven: Peeters, 1997); Othmar Keel and Christopher Uehlinger, Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998); Tallay Ornan, The Triumph of the Symbol: Pictorial Representation of Deities in Mesopotamia and the Biblical Image Ban (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2005).