Is this "the Face of God" ?

[left-of-center2012]

Archaeologist claims to find 10th cent. BCE graven images of Yahweh.

A leading Israeli archaeology professor claims that a handful of small male figurines associated with horse statues dating to the 10th and 9th centuries BCE, discovered in multiple sites from the ancient Kingdom of Judah, are in fact representations of the biblical Israelite God, Yahweh.

Hebrew University Prof. Yosef Garfinkel published his theory on Friday in an article for the popular archaeology-themed magazine, Biblical Archaeology Review, in its Fall 2020 issue.

“Yes, I think that people in ancient times believed these figurines to represent the face of Yahweh,” Garfinkel told The Times of Israel on Friday.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/face-of-god-archaeologist-claims-to-find-10th-cent-bce-graven-images-of-yahweh/

[Midnight Writer]

1. So God is an alien?

[lettucebe]

2. If so he had a nose for sniffing out trouble

Bonkers, as usual but hey religion, whatcha gonna do?

[3Hotdogs]

3. Bullshit. Its Gropenfuhrer before his daily farding of orange paste, carved two years ago,

at Bedminster.

[AZ8theist]

4. And He made us in his image?

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Iggo]

5. As much as this is.

[uriel1972]

6. I thought Moses was pretty down on the whole "Graven Image" thing....

one of the Thou shalt not's as I recall.

[Jim__]

7. "His theory was firmly rejected by all archaeologists who agreed to respond to Garfinkel's premise."

From the cited article:

His theory was firmly rejected by all archaeologists who agreed to respond to Garfinkel’s premise. Some would not give it the time of day, while others said it is not coincidental that his article was printed in a mainstream magazine and not an academic journal.

“Unfortunately, this article is pure sensationalism that caters to popular, money-generating, demand, in presenting an unfounded and (at best) tentative identification as factual as he ignores existing professional research and studies, including avoiding reference to any of the publications by the excavators,” wrote Tel Motza excavation co-directors Shua Kisilevitz (Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University) and Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University), whose finds served as a major basis for Garfinkel’s article.