Debra Band

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Debra Band melds scholarship and art in her inspirational books of Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition. She works in the intimate classical medium of the illuminated book, an integral part of Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious traditions since the advent of the bound book (around 1000 CE), that fuses beloved biblical and other traditional Jewish texts into jewel-like paintings on calfskin vellum, painted in ink, gouache (opaque watercolor), and “illuminated” in 23KT gold leaf and palladium leaf. Each painting in every book presents intricate symbolic imagery drawn from related biblical sources, archeology, rabbinics, modern science and related classics of Western society. Each book includes commentaries explaining the symbolism of the pa ...more

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Arise! Arise! : Deborah, Ru...

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The Song of Songs: The Hone...

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Debra Band Debra Band said: " In today's difficult times, we have such a search for connection, and personal connection to the world of the spirit today...yet a connection that makes sense in our daily world of data and science. Kabbalat Shabbat: the Grand Unification offers a go ...more "

 
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