Early Jewish Conceptions of God

A text's physical description of God might actually have been intended to emphasize God's indescribability.

Rabbinic parables explicitly compare God to a variety of human analogues, reflecting the rabbis' subtle, complex, and diverse images of God.

The biblical God is a God we can relate to.

Unlike the creation stories of other Near Eastern cultures, the biblical creation story is not concerned with God's origins.

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The Bible does not have a single conception of God.

Early Jewish literature was not concerned with proving God's existence or categorically defining God's nature.