SILVIA SCHROER and THOMAS STAUBLI Body Symbolism in the Bible
Body Symbolism in the Bible began as ten half-hour Sunday meditations on DRS II radio in the years 1994-96. ... There is a general introduction to the anthropology of the human body in the world of the Bible and a discussion of parts of the body: heart, throat, belly, head, eyes, ears, mouth, hands, feet, flesh, and bones. ... The authors are students of Othmar Keel, whose seminal work, The Symbolism of the Biblical World: Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms (trans. ... For Schroer and Staubli the "body" is a sacrament for humans to encounter their creator. ... Yhwh was incarnate in the human body. ... These sounds transcend the body, and therefore the throat is the life force of the body. Only when the LXX used psyche for nepe, was it incorrectly assumed that nepes was separate from the body.