Let me suggest that one
could take the approach that "images in worship" was at times more and at other times less important to Jews. After the christians began worshipping Jesus (or icons?), they recoiled and in reaction and became more "anti-image", than they in fact had been at christianity's first appearance.
...I'm not convinced of it, though.
You can suggest it but I did not. The bible is full of refrences to images of veneration. The temple was full of them. You just could not make an image of God since God had no image until Jesus was made flesh. You can depict what is depictable in Jewish law.