RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
I know that Brueggemann is a post-liberal scholar, but I have often found him insightful (with discretion).
It's interesting to contrast this with pagan understandings of "bending the god" to your will and other forms of fetishism."We may see in the prohibition of images an assertion of the unfettered character of Yahweh, who will not be captured, contained, assigned, or managed by anyone or anything, for any purpose" (Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament, pp. 184-185).