the I-Thou relationship between man and man and between man and God. Barth’s understanding of the image has received qualified support from a number of Old Testament scholars. F. Horst sees the meaning of the image in man’s personhood, which has ‘the character of a Thou addressed by God and an I answerable to God’.40 He does not accept Barth’s view of a distinction within God of the I and Thou to which the I-Thou relationship of man and woman is analogous, and puts in its place an analogy between