Democratizing the Image of God

A Trajectory and an Ethos

From The Munich Ilan Ha-Kabbalah. Thanks, Center for Jewish Art.

As every biblical scholar knows, Genesis 1-11 is a late addition to the patriarchal narratives of Genesis 12-50, which were composed in the earlier Iron Age of the preexilic period, and which reflect legendary memories of ancestor heroes from the even earlier Bronze Age, whose primary impor…