The groundbreaking work of Othmar Keel and Christoph Uehlinger (translated into English as Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel [trans. T. Trapp; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998]) inaugurated a new movement combining iconographic analysis with textual exegesis. In the intervening years, those affiliated with the so-called “Fribourg school” have offered methodological and theoretical clarifications; the movement has expanded now to occupy a prominent position in biblical studies. Foremost among the methodological principles of the school is the separate analysis of text and graphic data before a more combinatory analysis may proceed (e.g., p. 289). The present volume, edited by two established affiliates of the Fribourg school, self-consciously locates itself within the orbit of that school. As a result of this influence, the volume offers several compelling analyses of biblical texts using observations drawn from the iconographic milieu of the ancient Near East. Its contents comprise twelve chapters, plus an...

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