Image Credits
The Ten Commandments
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 Moses and the giving of the law, photographs of the Sinai wilderness and synagogue tablets, and pages from the manuscripts that carried the commandments. Creative Commons photographs are noted below.
| Image | Work & Attribution | License | Where it appears | Why it’s included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 moses-tablets.jpg | Moses with the Tablets of the Law Rembrandt van Rijn 1659 Source ↗ | Public domain | Hero background | Rembrandt’s Moses, the tablets raised: the image at the center of the course. |
 sinai.jpg | Sunrise from the summit of Mount Sinai (Gabal Musa) Photo: Sara Nabih Photographed 2016 Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Hero ornament | Dawn on the summit of Mount Sinai, where the law was said to be given. |
 torah-scroll.jpg | Closeup of a Torah scroll Photo: Jacob Gucker Photographed 2016 Source ↗ | CC0 | Hero ornament | A Torah scroll, the form in which the commandments were copied and kept. |
 tablets.jpg | The Decalogue tablets, Vienna City Synagogue Photo: Dnalor 01 Photographed 2017 Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 3.0 AT | Hero ornament | The two tablets of the Decalogue, gilded above a synagogue ark. |
 moses-sinai.jpg | God Writes the Ten Commandments for Moses on Mount Sinai Joseph von Führich 1835 Source ↗ | Public domain | Origin section figure | Führich’s God inscribing the commandments for Moses on the mountain. |
 nash-papyrus.jpg | The Nash Papyrus (Ten Commandments and Shema) Unknown (ancient scribe) 2nd to 1st century BCE Source ↗ | Public domain | At-a-Glance backdrop | The Nash Papyrus, one of the oldest surviving copies of the Ten Commandments. |
 moses-people.jpg | Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites Maerten de Vos 1574 Source ↗ | Public domain | Day I medallion (What Are the Ten Commandments?) | De Vos’s Moses showing the tablets to Israel: the law handed to the people. |
 golden-calf.jpg | The Adoration of the Golden Calf Nicolas Poussin c. 1634 Source ↗ | Public domain | Day II medallion (The Story & the Status) | Poussin’s Adoration of the Golden Calf, the scene the commandments are tangled with. |
 sabbath.jpg | Sabbath Rest (Sabbath-Ruhe auf der Gasse) Moritz Daniel Oppenheim 1866 Source ↗ | Public domain | Day III medallion (The Name & the Sabbath) | Oppenheim’s Sabbath rest: the commandment whose origin the course reopens. |
 cain-abel.jpg | Cain Slaying Abel Peter Paul Rubens 1608-1609 Source ↗ | Public domain | Day IV medallion (Killing & the Rest) | Rubens’s Cain killing Abel, the first death behind “thou shalt not kill.” |
 moses-statue.jpg | Moses (San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome) Michelangelo (Photo: Rabax63) Sculpture c. 1513-1515 (photographed 2014) Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Day V medallion (From Sinai to the Church) | Michelangelo’s Moses, the tablets under his arm: the law as Christian monument. |
 wilderness.jpg | Sinai desert canyon Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg Photographed 2007 Source ↗ | CC BY 4.0 | Instructor backdrop | The Sinai desert, the wilderness where the story of the law is set. |
 stone-inscription.jpg | The Siloam Inscription Photo: oncenawhile Inscription c. 8th century BCE (photographed 2014) Source ↗ | CC0 | Stats backdrop | The Siloam Inscription, paleo-Hebrew writing from the age of the kings of Judah. |
 moses-dore.jpg | Moses Coming Down from Mount Sinai Gustave Doré 1866 Source ↗ | Public domain | Highlights backdrop | Doré’s Moses descending Sinai, the tablets in hand. |
 torah-reading.jpg | Day of Atonement Isidor Kaufmann Before 1907 Source ↗ | Public domain | Highlights image card | Kaufmann’s Jews at prayer over the Law: the text in living Jewish use. |
 synagogue-tablets.jpg | The Ten Commandments, Dobruška synagogue Photo: Czeva Photographed 2021 Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Highlights image card | The Ten Commandments above a synagogue ark, the two rounded tablets. |
 law-giving.jpg | The Tablets of the Law (Sistine Chapel) Cosimo Rosselli 1481-1482 Source ↗ | Public domain | “Prepare to Rethink” backdrop | Rosselli’s Sistine fresco of the law given at Sinai. |
 aleppo-codex.jpg | Aleppo Codex, the Ten Commandments in Deuteronomy Aleppo Codex scribes (Photo: J. Segall) Codex c. 920 CE (photographed 1909) Source ↗ | Public domain | Schedule backdrop | The Aleppo Codex, the Ten Commandments of Deuteronomy in the finest Hebrew Bible. |
 illuminated-bible.jpg | Illuminated Pentateuch manuscript, Western Europe Menahem bar Abraham ibn Malik 1260 Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Bonuses backdrop | A 13th-century illuminated Pentateuch, the Torah copied and adorned by hand. |
 decalogue-stained-glass.jpg | Moses with the Tablets (stained-glass window) Unknown c. 1908 Source ↗ | Public domain | FAQ backdrop | Moses and the tablets in stained glass, the commandments as sacred emblem. |
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