Although an increasing number of works are focusing on depictions of God in the New Testament, none so far specifically focus on how these depictions rely on anthropomorphic language in their presentation of God. This article attends to this oversight by turning to the Synoptic Gospels (and the book of Acts) as a test case. Not only do these narratives lack an explicit anti-anthropomorphic agenda, but they also rely on divine anthropomorphisms that are derived from Jewish Scripture. To demonstrate this claim, the article concentrates on how Matthew and Luke expand Mark's anthropomorphic presentation of God and how Luke's presentation emerges as the most anthropomorphic of all. It also discusses how Mark, Matthew, and Luke's respective narratives depict God's human, or human-like, characteristics according to the following four categories: (1) God's human roles and titles, (2) God's depiction as an acting subject who speaks and desires to be in relationship with humans, (3) God's concrete presence located in space, and finally, (4) God's description as a character with recognisable body parts and other markers of corporeality. In the end, we shall see that anthropomorphism is a central component of God's characterisation in the Synoptics and that this anthropomorphic characterisation better enables readers to see the Jewish, scriptural shape of God as a personal deity who desires to be in relationship with humans.

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上帝的圣经形象：对观视角下的神圣拟人化

尽管越来越多的作品关注新约中对上帝的描绘，但迄今为止还没有人专门关注这些描绘如何依赖拟人化语言来呈现上帝。本文通过转向对观福音书（和使徒行传）作为测试案例来解决这种疏忽。这些叙述不仅缺乏明确的反拟人化议程，而且还依赖于源自犹太圣经的神圣拟人化。为了证明这一说法，本文集中讨论了马太和路加如何扩展马可对上帝的拟人化描述，以及路加的描述如何成为最拟人化的描述。它还讨论了马可、马太和路加各自的叙述如何描绘上帝的人，或类人，根据以下四类特征：（1）上帝的人类角色和头衔，（2）上帝作为一个行动主体的描述，他说话并希望与人类建立关系，（3）上帝在空间中的具体存在，最后， (4) 上帝对具有可识别身体部位和其他有形标记的人物的描述。最后，我们将看到拟人化是符类福音中上帝特征的核心组成部分，并且这种拟人化特征更好地使读者能够将犹太圣经中的上帝形象视为渴望与人类建立关系的个人神灵。位于空间的具体存在，最后，（4）上帝作为具有可识别身体部位和其他有形标记的角色的描述。最后，我们将看到拟人化是符类福音中上帝特征的核心组成部分，并且这种拟人化特征更好地使读者能够将犹太圣经中的上帝形象视为渴望与人类建立关系的个人神灵。位于空间的具体存在，最后，（4）上帝作为具有可识别身体部位和其他有形标记的角色的描述。最后，我们将看到拟人化是符类福音中上帝特征的核心组成部分，并且这种拟人化特征更好地使读者能够将犹太圣经中的上帝形象视为渴望与人类建立关系的个人神灵。