1. The Three Bodies of God in the Hebrew Bible

An earlier version of this study was presented in 2013 at meetings of the Catholic Biblical Association of America and the Columbia University Bible Seminar. My great thanks go to the following for their helpful comments: Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Paul Mosca, Harry Nasuti, Benjamin Sommer, and especially Christoph Uehlinger. I am also grateful for the comments of the JBL reviewers. A longer version of this essay will appear in Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Divine Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World, AYBRL (New Haven: Yale University Press). 1 Esther J. Hamori, “When Gods Were Men”: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature, BZAW 384 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008); Benjamin D. Sommer, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); and Andreas Wagner, Gottes Körper: Zur alttestamentlichen Vorstellung des Menschengestaltigkeit Gottes (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlaghaus, 2010). See also Anne K. Knafl, Forming God: Divine Anthropomorphism in the Pentateuch, Siphrut 12 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014), 73–157; Marjo C. A. Korpel, A Rift in the Clouds: Ugaritic and Hebrew Descriptions of the Divine, UBL 8 (Münster: UgaritVerlag, 1990). See also the following articles: Esther J. Hamori, “Divine Embodiment in the Hebrew Bible and Some Implications for Jewish and Christian Incarnational Theologies,” in Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible, ed. S. Tamar Kamionkowski and Wonil Kim, LHBOTS 465 (New York: T&T Clark, 2010), 161–83; Friedhelm Hartenstein, “Wolkendunkel und Himmelfeste: Zur JBL 134, no. 3 (2015): 471–488 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1343.2015.2790