Fluidity of the Divine

Part 2 of the conversation between Dr. Benjamin Sommer and Dr. Yeshaya Gruber explores the idea of if the Israelites thought of God had fluidity like the polytheists thought their gods had. Perhaps different authors had differing views? What do we gain by exploring the ancient views of the body or form of the Divine?
Watch the whole Round Table Talk with Dr. Sommer called God's Bodies in the Bible
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Israel Bible Podcast
Episode 15, Season 3
August 18, 2023
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Praise him❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

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Could you also do a discussion on Matthew 23? Thanks

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9:32 - what the torah teaches about God's location(s)
11:50 - a form not made of matter
13:44 --- oh that's what it also means image of God???

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1:36 - not polytheists, but did believe that the Self-existent one had a fluidity...
2:45 - Near Ancient Easterners believed...3:57 same thinking in catholicism - 4:10 - hashem of Teman and Shimron
4:40 - Absalom wanting to pay tribute in Hebron; a specific place.
6:21 - local manifestations - one of the words for this was malach
6:43 - malach; messenger, someone going on behalf of somebody else; a small scale manifestation of Hashem on earth - it's God but not all of God