The biblical prohibition of images has played an important role in the history of both Jewish and Christian religions in delineating their own identity against image cults, fueling both the Byzantine iconoclasm and the iconoclastic movements of the Reformation period. What were the guiding intentions behind the rejection of pictorial representations of God? And how does this rejection align with the tradition of the image of Christ as a representation of the invisible God, made possible by the concept of the Incarnation? What distinctions are made in the Old Testament formulations of the prohibition of images, and how should it be evaluated from a religious and theological historical perspective? What implications do recent archaeological insights into the iconography of Palestine have for the interpretation of the prohibition of images? What significance does it hold in the fields of philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and systematic theology?.