Praise for Through
a Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media
from Jewish and Christian spiritual leaders and experts on art and digital
culture.
“Mel
Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your
spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination. An interesting and relevant approach to
spiritual practice and creative expression.” - Jan Phillips, author of God
Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art and Finding the On-Ramp to
Your Spiritual Path: A Roadmap to Joy and Rejuvenation
“Strikes a
balance between Kabbalah and contemporary culture. It is replete with imagery
from both universes. It is literate,
wise, and easily accessible. Alexenberg
offers us an elegant and devout example of an evolved Jewish
Weltanschauung. Make no mistake; this is
a serious contribution to contemporary neo-kabbalah.” - Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, author of God
Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and
Ultimate Meaning; scholar-in-residence at Congregation Emanu-El of San
Francisco
“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
"Menahem
(Mel) Alexenberg is "tov ro'i," "goodly of vision."
He sees godliness and goodliness in even the most mundane, and instructs others
to behold that vision. We are blessed to have such a wise teacher in our
midst." - Rabbi Bezalel Naor, author of A Kabbalist’s Diary and The
Limit of Intellectual Freedom: The Letters of Rav Kook; former head of
institutes of higher Jewish learning in United States and Israel
The top photo above shows Rembrandt cyberangels flying in to the café at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Why the café? The biblical words for angel and food are spelled with the same four Hebrew letters to teach that angels are spiritual messages arising from everyday life. This message that spirituality can be found everyplace you focus your smartphone lens is the major concept of Through a Bible Lens.
The top photo above shows Rembrandt cyberangels flying in to the café at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Why the café? The biblical words for angel and food are spelled with the same four Hebrew letters to teach that angels are spiritual messages arising from everyday life. This message that spirituality can be found everyplace you focus your smartphone lens is the major concept of Through a Bible Lens.
The bottom image
from the book cover shows cyberangels spiraling up from a NASA satellite image
of the Land of Israel on a smartphone screen illustrating the biblical verse: “He
had a vision in a dream. A ladder was standing on the ground, its top reaching
up towards heaven as Divine angels were going up and down on it.” (Genesis
28:12) Angels in Jacob’s dream go up from Israel and go down
throughout the world.
Artist Mel Alexenberg launches cyberangels from Israel to thirty museums throughout the world as an homage to Rembrandt on the 350th anniversary of his death. These museums have Rembrandt inspired artworks by Alexenberg in their collections. At Global Tribute to Rembrandt are posts for each of the museums and texts on the impact of digital culture on art by the artist, former art professor at Columbia University, research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and professor at universities in Israel.
Artist Mel Alexenberg launches cyberangels from Israel to thirty museums throughout the world as an homage to Rembrandt on the 350th anniversary of his death. These museums have Rembrandt inspired artworks by Alexenberg in their collections. At Global Tribute to Rembrandt are posts for each of the museums and texts on the impact of digital culture on art by the artist, former art professor at Columbia University, research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and professor at universities in Israel.
