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Genesis


Jacob's Ladder by William Blake
Descent by Anna Freeman Bentley
Jacob's Dream by Augustus Lunn

Genesis 28:10–22 Jacob’s Ladder

Dante’s Vision of Rachel and Leah, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Jacob Meeting Rachel, by Erwin Speckter
The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel, by Simeon Solomon

Genesis 29:1–20 Rachel and Jacob

Hendrick ter Brugghen by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Jacob Reproaching Laban for Giving him Leah in Place of Rachel by Hendrick ter Brugghen
Pregnant Self Portrait by Ghislaine Howard

Genesis 29:21–35 Leah’s Struggles

Venus of Urbino by Titian
Wall Drawing #1144, Broken Bands of Color in Four Directions by Sol Lewitt
Jacob Laying Peeled Rods before the Flocks of Laban by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Genesis 30:25–31:16 Images, Imagination, Procreation, and Immersion

Jacob and the Angel by Jacob Epstein
Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) by Paul Gauguin
Jakob Ringt mit den Engel (Jacob Wrestles with the Angel) by Max Beckmann

Genesis 32:22–32 Jacob Wrestling the Angel

Joseph sent to Sechem by Jacob by Unknown artist
Joseph sent to Sechem by Jacob, from the Vienna Genesis by Unknown artist
Roundel Illustrating Episodes from the Biblical Story of Joseph by Unknown Egyptian artist

Genesis 37:13–36 Joseph Is Sold

We Are All Prostitutes, from the Market Street Cinema series by Leon Mostovoy
Peter von Cornelius by Emile Jean Horace Vernet
Mother and Child Juniper Fleming

Genesis 38 Tamar

Joseph Sold into Slavery, Bad Blood, False Accusations and Portents of the Future, from The Crusader Bible (The Morgan Picture Bible) by Unknown French artist
Zulaykha Seizing the Skirt of Yusuf's Robe, from a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami by Unknown Bukharan artist
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife and Scenes from the life of Joseph, from the Golden Haggadah by Unknown artist

Genesis 39 Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

Joseph interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams by Peter von Cornelius
The Triumph of Joseph by Hilaire Pader
Scenes from the life of Joseph from the Golden Haggadah (upper right: Pharaoh's dream; upper left: Joseph interpreting Pharaoh's dream in front of his counsellors; lower right: Joseph ordering the arrest of Simeon; lower left: Joseph) by unknown artist

Genesis 41 Joseph’s Rise to Power

Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh, by Rembrandt van Rijn
Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, by Benjamin West
Jacob Blessing Joseph’s Children, from The Bible, by Marc Chagall

Genesis 48 Jacob blesses Joseph’s Children

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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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