{"id":2791,"date":"2009-11-04T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T01:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2013-04-27T06:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T13:31:20","slug":"the-book-of-genesis-illustrated-by-r-crumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/11\/04\/the-book-of-genesis-illustrated-by-r-crumb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-2791\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Genesis-Illustrated-R-Crumb\/dp\/0393061027\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1257384493&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/R.-Crumb\/e\/B001IU0DRQ\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\" target=\"_blank\">R. Crumb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardcover:<\/strong> 224 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> W.W. Norton &amp; Co.; 1 edition (October 19, 2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0393061027<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0393061024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not nearly so racy as you might be led to believe by ads and reviews, this is quite a nice book on Genesis.\u00c2\u00a0 The graphics are pure Crumb; the women are voluptuous and the men hairy.\u00c2\u00a0 The best part may be R. Crumb&#8217;s end notes, where he describes how he interpreted the work.\u00c2\u00a0 Its interesting that he drew the serpent that gave Eve the apple with arms and legs &#8211; that was because he noted that God ordered that he slither along the ground for what he did.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Lilith is missing which I find problematic &#8211; otherwise I think this is a highly accessible way to read Genesis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-2791\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 2791);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-2791\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-2791\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb Author: R. Crumb Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: W.W. Norton &amp; Co.; 1 edition (October 19, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0393061027 ISBN-13: 978-0393061024 Not nearly so racy as you might be led to believe by ads and reviews, this is quite a nice book on Genesis.\u00c2\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-J1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}