http://rabbibrant.com/2009/11/08/underground-genesis/ A Blog by Rabbi Brant Rosen Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:03:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://rabbibrant.com/2009/11/08/underground-genesis/#comment-5772 Lesley Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:30:40 +0000 http://rabbibrant.com/?p=5022#comment-5772 I got it for my birthday. I found it to be very moving. It's easy to focus on the buxom women and muscular men, but I love the facial expressions: Abraham's crafty sidelong glances as he argues with God over Sodom, the sudden bug-eyed look on the faces of the Shechemites when they get the bad news about circumcision. And the tears: Adam and Eve when they're expelled, Isaac when he realizes who the "sheep for the sacrifice" is, Hagar's when she and Ishmael are cast out. I can't see calling it idolatrous: I think Crumb was trying to depict these stories the way the creators would have seen them. I got it for my birthday. I found it to be very moving. It’s easy to focus on the buxom women and muscular men, but I love the facial expressions: Abraham’s crafty sidelong glances as he argues with God over Sodom, the sudden bug-eyed look on the faces of the Shechemites when they get the bad news about circumcision. And the tears: Adam and Eve when they’re expelled, Isaac when he realizes who the “sheep for the sacrifice” is, Hagar’s when she and Ishmael are cast out. I can’t see calling it idolatrous: I think Crumb was trying to depict these stories the way the creators would have seen them.

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