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Chapter 1 discusses various Old Testament texts that use imagery and metaphor to portray the complexity of God as understood by ancient Jewish people. It includes a table for group activities analyzing specific passages, focusing on how God is depicted and the metaphors used to communicate His sovereignty and power. Additionally, it prompts a reflective paragraph on how these manifestations challenge or reinforce the concept of God being neither male nor female.

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Activity 1.9

Chapter 1 discusses various Old Testament texts that use imagery and metaphor to portray the complexity of God as understood by ancient Jewish people. It includes a table for group activities analyzing specific passages, focusing on how God is depicted and the metaphors used to communicate His sovereignty and power. Additionally, it prompts a reflective paragraph on how these manifestations challenge or reinforce the concept of God being neither male nor female.

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Chapter 1 Old Testament

Activity 1.9
The table below contains references to various texts that use imagery and metaphor to try to
explain the diversity and complexity of God as understood by the ancient Jewish people.
1 Working in groups of two or three, you are responsible for one of the passage/s listed
below. Read the passage and complete the table by providing answers to the questions
listed in the table.

Bible reference How is God portrayed? What metaphors are used to


Consider God’s actions and explain and communicate God’s
words. By what name/s is God sovereignty and power? Look
referred? If you had to draw for metaphors using weather,
God according to this landscape, clothing,
passage, what would you relationships, etc. Provide
include? specific references. Does the
metaphor change, develop or
remain constant?
Shema Deuteronomy 6:4–9;
11:1–27

Psalm 104 1:25 It says he is clothed with honour It says he is clothed with honour
and majesty. and majesty.
He stretches out the heavens He stretches out the heavens like a
like a tent. tent.
Psalm 97:1–7

Job 38

Isaiah 40

Hosea 11:3–4

Deuteronomy 32:11–12

Cambridge University Press 1 © Goldburg 2018


Chapter 1 Old Testament
Deuteronomy 32:18

Isaiah 66:13

Isaiah 42:14

Psalm 131:2

Psalm 123:3

2 When you have finished sharing and have sufficient information, write a paragraph that
responds to the question: To what extent do the many manifestations of God, as depicted
in the imagery in Old Testament texts, challenge or reinforce the understanding that God
is neither male nor female?

Cambridge University Press 2 © Goldburg 2018

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