Description: Title: The Book of Genesis Author: Crumb, R. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Binding: Hardcover Pages: 228 Dimensions: 11.00h x 8.00w x 0.90d Product Weight: 1.85 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780393061024 Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that we would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible's language, "a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions," that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible. Now, readers of every persuasion--Crumb fans, comic book lovers, and believers--can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing, tragic, and even juicy stories. Crumb's Book of Genesis reintroduces us to the bountiful tree lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire that rained from the heavens, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh, where Joseph's embalmed body is carried in a coffin, in a scene as elegiac as any in Genesis. Using clues from the text and peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretation that have often obscured the Bible's most dramatic stories, Crumb fleshes out a parade of Biblical originals: from the serpent in Eden, the humanoid reptile appearing like an alien out of a science fiction movie, to Jacob, a "kind've depressed guy who doesn't strike you as physically courageous," and his bother, Esau, "a rough and kick ass guy," to Abraham's wife Sarah, more fetching than most woman at 90, to God himself, "a standard Charlton Heston-like figure with long white hair and a flowing beard." As Crumb writes in his introduction, "the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself." Crumb's Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses. Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: Best Adaptation from Another Work, Best Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Author: Crumb, R.
Book Title: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: w. Norton
Genre: Religious
Publication Year: 2009
Language: English
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Character: Nahor (Serug's Son), Basemath (Daughter of Elon the Hittite), Ham's Wife, Laban, Ehi, Judah, Tidal, Eber, Issachar, Zohar, Jeush, Serug, Nahor (Terah's Son), Reuel, Sered, Arpachshad, Enoch (Jared's Son), Jemuel, Duma, Levi, Rebekah's Mother, Basemath (Daughter of Ishmael), Sarai/Sarah, Hamul, Shem's Wife, Tubal-Cain, Ard, Lot's Older Daughter, Joseph, Jobab, Ben-Ammi, Cain, Korah, Seth, Haran, Potiphar's Wife, Mizzah, Lamech (Methuselah's Son), Lot's Herdsmen, Puvah, Onan, Asher, Asenath, Abraham's Servant, Huppim, Japeth's Wife, Samlah, God, Ezer, Zibbon, Husham, Gatam, Heber, Ham, Midian, Adbeel, Hadad (Son of Ishmael), Zebulun, Reu, Isaac, Jahzeel, Arodi, Omar, Jubal, Abram/ Abraham, Bela, Son of Beor, The Serpent, Jetur, Gershon, Tamar's Father, Shuni, Chedorlaomer, Jalam, Mibsam, Enoch (Reuben's Son), Serah, Chieftain Magdiel, Prison-House Warden, Shillem, Benjamin, Gad, Jahleel, Abel, Chieftain Jetheth, Shobal, Abimelech, Arioch, Shimron, Milcah, Elon, Abram's Herdsmen, Ezbon, Er, Japeth, Manasseh, Naphtali, Keturah, Man Who Was over Joseph's House, Melchizedek, Phicol, Potiphar, Mahalalel, Perez, Muppim, Becher, Hadad (Son of Bedad), Noah's Wife, Zillah, Kohath, Ampraphel, Ashbel, Mishma, Methuselah, Ephraim, Bilhah, Hezron, Jabal, Dishon, Nahath, Hadad (Last King of Edom), Terah, Ishuah, Anah, Mahalath, Jezer, Lot, The Chief Baker, Jacob / Israel, Kenan, Naaman, Pharaoh (Abram's Contemporary), Naamah, Eri, Kenaz, Chieftain Iram, Canaan, Judith, Nebaioth, Amalek, Moab, Ishmael, Chieftain Elah, Jacob's Unnamed Wrestling Opponent, Ahuzzath, Bela (Son of Benjamin), Peleg, Kedmah, Rosh, Ishmael's Wife, Ziphion, Dishan, Hirah the Adullamite, Shelah (Son of Arpachshad), Hushim, Imnah, Guni, Shelah (Son of Judah), The Chief Cupbearer, Zepho, Dan, Simeon, Hamor, Enoch (Cain's Son), Saul from Rehoboth-On-The-River, Merari, Tola, Areli, Reuben, Birsha, Tamar, Lotan, Timna (Concubine of Eliphaz), Chieftain Pinon, Shechem, Rachel's Midwife, Adah (Daughter of Elon the Hittite), Kedar, GERA, Carmi, Rebekah, Naphish, Jared, Enosh, Cain's Wife, Zerah (Son of Judah), Baal-Hanan, Esau, Leah, Chieftain Mibzar, Massa, Lord's Messenger (El-Roi), Ishvi, Jacob's Messengers to Esau, Saul, the Son of the Canaanite Woman, Ephron, Oholibamah (Daughter of Anah), Adam, Eve, Zerah (Son of Reuel), Adah (Lamech's Wife), Mehetabel, Chieftain of Oholibamah, Dinah, Tema, Lamech (Methusael's Son), Bera, Chieftain Alvah, Pallu, Two Messengers, Jamin, Hagar the Horrible, Iob, Beriah, Teman, Shua, Eliphaz, Rachel, Noah, Jachin, Shammah, Zilpah, Haggi, Malchiel, Pharaoh (Joseph's Contemporary), Ohad, Shem, Lot's Younger Daughter, Chieftain of Timna
Artist/Writer: Robert Crumb
Series Title: The Book of Genesis Illustrated
