The Seeing Eye ·
Jeremiahs in Paint and Stone
By Jacob WisseFor Christian and Jewish artists, the prophet has revealed something about timeless human struggles.
Art history
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The Seeing Eye ·
Welter and Waste in the Hebrew Bible
By Jacob WisseThe Great Masters saw eternal stillness in Christian Scripture, and dynamism and change in Jewish Scripture.
Response ·
Twisted Tales: Christian Art Re-Presents the Hebrew Bible
By Larry SilverChristian artists often employ a notion called typology, or prefiguration, where events from the Hebrew Bible eventually find rhymes within the later life of Jesus.
Monthly Essay ·
How Western Artists Used and Abused the Hebrew Bible
By Dr. Jacob WisseFor centuries, visual artists, nearly all Christian, turned to the Hebrew Bible for inspiration even more often than the New Testament. What did they find there, and did they treat it well?
Observations ·
The Once and Future Temple, Part II
By Marc Michael EpsteinChristian Renaissance paintings of the Temple are the visual record of a theology that had devastating consequences in the lives of Jews from antiquity to the Middle Ages and beyond.
