Iconicity of the Text

Among the precepts of Mosaic religion is one that has more significance than is first obvious. It is the prohibition against making an image of God, which means the compulsion to worship an invisible God. ... If this prohibition was accepted, however, it was bound to exercise a profound influence. For it signified subordinating sense perception to an abstract idea; it was a triumph of spirituality over senses; more precisely, an instinctual renunciation accompanied by its psychologically necessary consequences. Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism

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• Asceticism, Mysticism, and Messianism

  Elliot R Wolfson•The Jewish Quarterly Review•2016

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• The Voices of Moses

  Open Access•Ariel Evan Mayse, Ariel Mayse•Harvard Theological Review•2019

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• A History of Kabbalah

  Open Access•Jonathan Garb•History of Kabbalah•2020

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