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“For those
of us familiar with the diverse and exhilarating work of Mel Alexenberg as an
artist, educator and profound thinker, this latest book offers precisely the
four things we would expect. The narrative thinks brilliantly outside the box.
It synthesizes the realm of the abstruse and transcendent with the realm of the
concrete and immanent. It crisscrosses disciplines, from science and technology
to philosophy and mysticism to art as both historical and creative phenomena.
Finally, the entirety is managed in a style both accessible and inviting. Those
with prior knowledge of any or all of the disciplines from which Alexenberg
draws will smile again and again in affirmation, and those entering without
prior knowledge will be thrilled to understand things that they thought might
be beyond them. This is one of those books that other thinkers will wish they
had somehow thought about how to write, and to which readers of diverse sorts
will simply respond by saying: wow!” - Dr. Ori Z. Soltes, author of Tradition
and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture; professorial
lecturer of Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
“I
am honored to see how Professor Alexenberg draws on my teachings and makes them
come alive in the world of smartphones and social media. He provides a practical
guide for photographing the splendor of God by opening your eyes in wonder in
whatever place you find yourself. Seeing with eyes of wonder is seeing for the
first time every time.” - Rabbi David Aaron, author of Seeing God: Ten
Life Changing Lessons of the Kabbalah and The Secret Life of God:
Discovering the Divine within You; dean of Isralight and Yeshivat
Oryta in the Old City of Jerusalem
“In Through a Bible Lens, Mel Alexenberg continues his meandering journey seeking Beauty and the Divine within the commonplace. Gazing vertically and horizontally, across literary, cyber, aesthetic and earthly texts/spaces, the journey's end point is always the same - sublime joy in the revelation of God in the World, God as the world.” - Dr. Randall Rhodes, Provost, American University of Armenia, Yerevan
“In Through a Bible Lens, Mel Alexenberg continues his meandering journey seeking Beauty and the Divine within the commonplace. Gazing vertically and horizontally, across literary, cyber, aesthetic and earthly texts/spaces, the journey's end point is always the same - sublime joy in the revelation of God in the World, God as the world.” - Dr. Randall Rhodes, Provost, American University of Armenia, Yerevan
