Revelation Revealed:
Receiving the Torah in Jewish Visual Traditions
In speaking to the Israelites about their experience at Mount Sinai, Moses is very clear that God intends them to remember that they saw no image on the mountain, indeed, that the experience was strictly aural and oral. Yet Jewish artists were drawn to the depiction of the moment of the Sinaitic Revelation. How did they accomplish this without subverting the prohibition of its visualization? And what can we learn about the nature of religious experience from their solutions?