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Handelman, Susan. "God’s Comics: The Hebrew Alphabet as Graphic Narrative." Comics and Sacred Texts. Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives. Eds. Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2018. 25–42. Added by: joachim (11/29/18, 11:28 AM) Last edited by: joachim (6/8/22, 7:36 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv7vcsv2.6 BibTeX citation key: Handelman2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Judaism, Religion, Writing Creators: Gamzou, Handelman, Koltun-Fromm Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) Collection: Comics and Sacred Texts. Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives |
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This chapter probes the Jewish visual imagination of the sacred through a discussion of the Hebrew alphabet as “graphic narrative.” Exploring how the relation of text and image becomes deconstructed and redefined in classical rabbinic writings on the Hebrew alphabet and the forms of the letters, this chapter opens a reciprocal dialogue between “comics” and “Torah,” and between theories of graphic narrative and rabbinic interpretation. What might a “theology of graphic narrative” look like? The ultimate source of creative pleasure in all of us—artists and academics, rabbis and readers, parents and children—is that we ourselves, finally, are the letters and the letters are us. We are “God’s comics.”
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