Comments on: The Commandment for the Ten Commandments Monument http://www.doczonline.com/the-commandment-for-the-ten-commandments-monument/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Doc Z http://www.doczonline.com/the-commandment-for-the-ten-commandments-monument/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Doc Z Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:31:36 +0000 http://www.doczonline.com/?p=45#comment-4 "Graven images" are, strictly speaking, all works of art that are not for sacramental or liturgical use. So, they would include all autonomous or secular paintings, sculpture, poems, novels, movies, et cetera. That is why there is no tradition of secular art by Jewish artists comparable to that for Christianity. The first major secular Jewish artists are assimilated Jews in the 19th century and after. This also means that those parts of the Old Testament that persons refer to as poetry because they seem "poetic" to us are not poetry. There is no poetry in our sense in the Jewish Bible, but there are songs. This may be TMI. “Graven images” are, strictly speaking, all works of art that are not for sacramental or liturgical use. So, they would include all autonomous or secular paintings, sculpture, poems, novels, movies, et cetera. That is why there is no tradition of secular art by Jewish artists comparable to that for Christianity. The first major secular Jewish artists are assimilated Jews in the 19th century and after.

This also means that those parts of the Old Testament that persons refer to as poetry because they seem “poetic” to us are not poetry. There is no poetry in our sense in the Jewish Bible, but there are songs.

This may be TMI.

]]> By: Cordelia http://www.doczonline.com/the-commandment-for-the-ten-commandments-monument/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Cordelia Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:22:47 +0000 http://www.doczonline.com/?p=45#comment-3 I thought "graven" images were pictures of people? What are they? I thought “graven” images were pictures of people? What are they?

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