“Through a Bible Lens” by Prof. Mel Alexenberg draws on the Bible to discover imaginative ways for experiencing spirituality in our age of smartphone photography and social media. It explores digital culture and biblical thought based on his research and teaching at Columbia University, MIT, and universities in Israel. It speaks to Christians and Jews in the language of new media on how to create a lively dialogue between one’s emerging life story and the enduring biblical narrative.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
"Compelling Integration of the Sacred and Profane" From author of "Earth Angels: Engaging the Sacred in Everyday Things"
“The most recent, and arguably one of art’s most complete and compelling integrations of the sacred and profane. Mel Alexenberg shows the way to the divine via digital imagery and heightened perception of its presence in the moving face of every person, place, and thing. The book is packed with wisdom and learning about Talmudic tradition, creative expression, and cyberangels. It reads like a swift and soulful breeze. I love every “byte” of it.”
- Dr. Shaun McNiff, author of Earth Angels: Engaging the Sacred in Everyday Things and Imagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression; university professor of Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Monday, September 17, 2018
TV Interview of Author of "Through the Bible Lens"
See the interview about my book "Through a Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media" aired on May 7, 2018 on the Israel Now News program on the DayStar Television Network that reaches 35 million viewers. I was interviewed by Josh Reinstein, Director of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, on a Jerusalem rooftop studio.
"Intellectually exciting book" From Oral Roberts University Head of Art Education
“An
intellectually exciting book that stimulates the sensory palate. Drawing from the Kabbalah and Hebrew
traditions, Dr. Alexenberg shares in-depth, meaningful insights about
encountering God in the creative process through photography. Using photography as the vehicle, we are
guided, one idea at a time, to an understanding of what the author means by,
’looking up, looking out, and looking inward.’”
- T. Mandel Chenoweth, head of the Art Education Department, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- T. Mandel Chenoweth, head of the Art Education Department, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
"Thinks brilliantly outside the box" From Georgetown University Professor of Theology and Fine Arts
“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
- 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
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THROUGH A BIBLE LENS explores the Bible, the best selling book in the world, from the viewpoint of life in today's digital era.
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Working with my wife Miriam in our Garden of Eden kitchen in Israel “An intellectually exciting book that stimulates the sensory pal...
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Raising of the hand-written Torah scroll on Passover “Whether we see this book as a book of art – a mystical computer program for s...
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My grandson Razel catching the Sea of Galilee in his hand “The iPhone has changed our culture and our ways of thinking and acting in th...