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