Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts nine months to clean and restore it. Today, the Adoration hangs in a place of honor in one of the Prado's newly inaugurated salons, fresh with all the unearthly radiance and splendor that El Greco's brushes originally imparted, and once again the permanent testament to his great art that the Toledo stranger originally intended...
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE BIBLE, by Marc Chagall (Harcourt Brace; $25), is really a poem in etchings and lithographs (133 in all) to celebrate the myths and meanings of the Old Testament. The drawing is rough and bold, almost primitive, but intentionally so, to picture the time and to convey the responses of a driven people who found God in a harsh desert. Deliberate, also, are the Old Testament characters, made to look like medieval ghetto figures, and the animals that might have been drawn by cave dwellers to illustrate a great saga. These powerful, often dreamily tortuous drawings are full...
Earthquakes & Visions. The Old Testament sparkles with wonders, and Aradi explains their profusion by reminding his readers that God had a hard time with the Israelites. "God had to prove His existence to a people that did not know...
...Testament miracles are quite different. Instead of earthquakes and lightning, the immobilizing of heavenly bodies and the annihilation of cities, Jesus changes water into wine, gives sight to the blind, feeds multitudes with an armful of fishes and loaves. Christ's miracles proceed, as it were, from a creative force revealing itself in life, rather than impinging on life to make men stare...
...vernacular Hebrew at ages ranging from 19 to 33. Most of the stories reflect the authors' predominantly European culture, and echoes of Voltaire, De Maupassant, James Joyce and Sholom Aleichem sound more clearly than do the wild notes of Oriental imagery or the deep rhythms of the Old Testament...