Abstract
The following article represents the former section of a larger study regarding religious aniconism practiced in Ancient Israel. The aniconic movement is an alternative to the iconographic expression of divinity. Aniconism understands the configuration of the divine in a symbolic and abstract way, apart from the anthropomorphic and the theriomorphic representation. In this sense, the props used were stone and wood, especially unwrought, in their crude form, so that later, thanks to his insatiable aesthetic appetite, man could manufacture finished pillars, ornate columns, seals, chariots, thrones, obelisks, temples and pyramids, sacralized empty spaces.
The aniconist movement is found throughout the Near East, mostly in Phoenicia and Syria, but aniconic artifacts are also found in Ancient Palestine too, according to archaeological findings. Thus, the history of Ancient Israel does not strike a discordant note in this cultural-religious course, on the contrary, although the official post-exilic propaganda was as prohibitive as possible towards these manifestations, considering them alien and idolatrous.