The Old Testament Through 100 Masterpieces of Art

Régis Debray
L'Ancien Testament à travers 100 chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture, 2003
Translated by Benjamin Lifson
Merrell, 2004

Introduction

p 4
Here is a remarkable paradox: the book that prohibits images has become a treasury of images, the great storehouse of them for the Western eye.

p 5

The Invisible is legible but not figurable. The Word is potent, illustrations impotent.

2 Kings II

Athaliah in the Temple

p 182
With respect to its bloodiness, the working out of a curse on a royal line over time, and the horror of infanticide, the story of the house of Ahab is an Old Testament counterpart of the Greek myth of the House of Atreus.

History, Essays
Marc Girod