Turn to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on
"Pharisees" (Exhibit 264) and the statements that when the God
of Intelligence, the "anthropomorphic" God, was eliminated from the
Bible by the Pharisees, "these used . . . the Angelogy and Demonology of
the Pharisees . . . with the help of the Ma'aseh Bereshit and Ma'aseh Mercabah
[Pagan rites to see the Sun God, Mithra, or Metatron, and lean the past and
future] not only to amplify the Biblical account, but to remove from the Bible
anthropomorphisms and similarly obnoxious verbiage concerning the Deity by referring
them to angelic and intermediary powers [for instance Genesis 1:26] . .
." (Elizabeth Dilling, The
Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today [4th ed.; 1983], 68)
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