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GENESIS | 48:15 shepherd — GEN1588 The dominant image of God in the Bible is...

GEN1588 The dominant image of God in the Bible is as a shepherd of God’s human flock generally and of Israel in particular [this verse; Isaiah 40:11; Psalms 23:1] --an image that uses the relationship between humans and farmed animals to describe the ideal human-divine relationship. (By Aaron S. Gross, "Jewish Animal Ethics") OXFORD 420

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