anthropomorphism

«anthropomorphism» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Talking about God or other things as if they had a human… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Talking about God or other things as if they had a human body or feelings. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Jewish thinkers like Maimonides taught that the Torah's pictures of God's hands or anger are only ways of speaking, since God has no body.

examples

• The appearance of this root in the SY’s introductory paragraph serves as a reminder that although we embark upon a text rich in vivid, grounded symbolism—even anthropomorphism—we should not hasten to take such symbolic language overly literally. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «anthropomorphism» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.