Art history
Christian artists often employ a notion called typology, or prefiguration, where events from the Hebrew Bible eventually find rhymes within the later life of Jesus.
For 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?
Figs, grapes, and unconvincing explanations.
Catholics fare little better.
Replacing academic freedom with cowardice.
The Astronomer, the rescue of Moses, and two aspects of wonder.
“With your unshakeable faith you pray for the glory of your ancestors and for the triumph of truth.”
Christian 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.