Image Credits
The Bible by Committee
Every image on the course page, with its source, license, and the reason it was chosen. The artwork is public-domain and freely-licensed material from Wikimedia Commons: paintings of the stories this course reads closely, and pages of the great manuscripts that carry the Pentateuch as it has come down to us. Creative Commons works are attributed below. All images have been resized for the web.
| Image | Work & Attribution | License | Where it appears | Why it’s included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 rembrandt-moses.jpg | Moses with the Ten Commandments Rembrandt van Rijn 1659 Source ↗ | Public domain | Hero background | The traditional author of the Pentateuch, tablets raised: the very picture of single authorship this course re-examines. |
 ezra-amiatinus.jpg | Ezra the Scribe (folio 5r) Unknown scribe (Codex Amiatinus) before 716 Source ↗ | Public domain | Origin section figure | A scribe at work among his books: tradition credited Ezra with restoring the Torah, and the page honors the many hands behind the text. |
 reni-moses.jpg | Moses with the Tables of the Law Guido Reni c. 1624 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 01 medallion | The triumphant Moses of tradition, opening the lecture that asks why anyone thought he was the author. |
 hicks-ark.jpg | Noah’s Ark Edward Hicks 1846 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 02 medallion & hero ornament | The animals boarding the ark: the flood, one of two complete tellings stitched into a single story. |
 flavitsky-joseph.jpg | Joseph Sold by His Brothers Konstantin Flavitsky 1855 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 03 medallion | The sale of Joseph, the passage the course uses as its laboratory: who sold him, and to whom? |
 poynter-israel-egypt.jpg | Israel in Egypt Edward Poynter 1867 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 04 medallion | Poynter’s vast canvas of Israelite forced labor: the enslavement each source describes differently. |
 bourdon-burning-bush.jpg | The Burning Bush Sébastien Bourdon 17th century Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 05 medallion | Moses before the bush that burns and is not consumed: the call scene at the hinge of the Exodus story. |
 martin-seventh-plague.jpg | The Seventh Plague of Egypt John Martin 1823 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 06 medallion & hero ornament | Martin’s apocalyptic hailstorm: the plagues at full theatrical pitch, ready to be counted and re-counted. |
 poussin-red-sea.jpg | The Crossing of the Red Sea Nicolas Poussin 1633-1637 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 07 medallion & hero ornament | The crossing as the movies remember it, beside the lecture on the versions they forgot. |
 gerome-sinai.jpg | Moses on Mount Sinai Jean-Léon Gérôme 1895-1900 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 08 medallion | Sinai wrapped in smoke and fire: the theophany, the literal and figurative high point of the Pentateuch. |
 tissot-grapes.jpg | The Grapes of Canaan James Tissot c. 1896-1902 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 09 medallion | The spies returning under their impossible cluster of grapes: the report that condemned a generation. |
 leningrad-carpet.jpg | Carpet page, Leningrad Codex Shmuel ben Ya’akov c. 1010 Source ↗ | Public domain | Lecture 10 medallion | The interwoven geometry of the oldest complete Hebrew Bible: many strands, one design, the redactor’s achievement in miniature. |
 aleppo-deut.jpg | Aleppo Codex, Deuteronomy Shlomo ben Buya’a c. 930 Source ↗ | Public domain | At-a-Glance backdrop | Deuteronomy in the great Aleppo Codex: the book whose place in the Pentateuch the final lecture sets. |
 leningrad-song-sea.jpg | Leningrad Codex, folio 40b (Exodus 15:14-16:3) Shmuel ben Ya’akov (Leningrad Codex) 1008 Source ↗ | Public domain | Instructor backdrop | The Song of the Sea in its distinctive interlocking layout: poetry and prose set side by side on a single page, exactly the kind of join this course studies. |
 torah-scroll.jpg | Open Torah scroll Photo: Lawrie Cate Photographed 2009 Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 | Stats backdrop | The Torah as it is still read aloud: one continuous scroll carrying many voices. |
 dore-tablets.jpg | Moses Breaks the Tables of the Law Gustave Doré 1866 Source ↗ | Public domain | “Prepare to Rethink” backdrop | Doré’s Moses shattering the tablets: the fitting image for a section about breaking assumptions. |
 tissot-manna.jpg | The Gathering of the Manna James Tissot c. 1896-1902 Source ↗ | Public domain | Bonuses backdrop | Provision gathered up morning by morning: the section where everything included with the course is laid out. |
 nash-papyrus.jpg | The Nash Papyrus (Decalogue and Shema) Unknown scribe 2nd or 1st century BCE Source ↗ | Public domain | FAQ backdrop | For over a thousand years the oldest known Hebrew biblical text: the Ten Commandments as they circulated before the codices. |
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