Word: scrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brushed it in with ink, it catches overtones of the full-throated, eerie cry that summons up another world, both lonely and mysterious. For to Graves, Nature and Symbol are one when seen with the artist's inner eye. His Concentrated Pine Top (opposite), done on a vertical scroll, gives a sense of strength and detachment, and is as Oriental in texture as it is in feeling...
...Chapter 12, in which Abraham's wife Sarah is taken by the Pharaoh in Egypt, the scroll adds a detailed account of Sarah's beauty, describing her feet, legs, face and hair...
...Chapter 13, where God instructs Abraham to walk "through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof,'' the scroll adds a first-person account by Abraham of his journey...
...scroll reports, in Chapter 15, a colloquial discussion between Abraham and his wife after God promised them a son. Genesis makes no mention of such a conversation...
Precise details of the text will not be published until the four pages have been completely deciphered, but some interesting differences between the seventh scroll and the Book of Genesis have already come to light. Items...