“A Confrontation Between Image and Text”
July 23rd, 2008 by Menachem Wecker
Read my review of Panim el Panim: Facing Genesis, Visual Midrash by Debra Linesch and Evelyn Stettin here.
Here’s the lede:
What do you get when you mix a Jesuit publishing company, a Reform Jewish scholar, an Orthodox Jewish painter, and a thesis on human-divine encounters?
In Panim el Panim: Facing Genesis, Visual Midrash, the product is a surprisingly coherent collaboration of image and text, which not only examines the book of Genesis, but also seeks to uncover real-world lessons and advice from the biblical passages that are accessible to all sorts of readers.