Thanks, Jay.  A very important point about the way we look at the texts.
It's received mixed reviews artistically and becomes a fascinating way to
look at the way religious art has changed (thinned?  eroded?  shifted?) over
the last five hundred years or more, reflecting the doctrines of
Protestantism, the options of secular humanism, and just plain old
contemporary atheism.  I'm something of a heathen, myself, but I find myself
spellbound by much of the religious art of the (far) past and fascinated by
the way people still try to find a material form for the ideas in this very
abstract age.

It is a gorgeous thing, by the way.  I'd love to see one of the
hand-printed, hand-sewn copies eventually.

Jolly 2001 to you all.

Ellen Cutler
Aberdeen, MD
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Subject: Re: Hands-On Printing Exhibits


> Hello Ellen et al.:
>
> Ellen B. Cutler wrote:
> > . . . Barry Moser's Pennyroyal Caxton Bible published in 1999?
> > If by any chance you are unfamiliar with it, it's the first
> illustrated
> > bible since Gustave Dore's from the first years of the 19th century.
>
> Just noting that Barry Moser's illustrated bible (1999) is the Christian
> Bible (i.e., the Old and New Testaments).  Moser is a methodist preacher
> and printmaker (wood engraving and woodcuts).
>
> Chagall's illustrated bible (1956) -- obviously produced after Dore's
> and before Moser's -- is the Hebrew Bible (called by some the "Old" or
> "Original" Testament).
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jay Heuman, Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator
> Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, 68102
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