{"id":70,"date":"2010-10-20T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/10\/20\/professor_robert_kirschbaum_and_the_42_letter_name\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T19:38:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T19:38:48","slug":"professor_robert_kirschbaum_and_the_42_letter_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/10\/20\/professor_robert_kirschbaum_and_the_42_letter_name\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Robert Kirschbaum and the 42 Letter Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2012\/06\/1387-Robert-Kirschbaum.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-199\" alt=\"1387-Robert Kirschbaum\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2012\/06\/1387-Robert-Kirschbaum.jpeg\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2012\/06\/1387-Robert-Kirschbaum.jpeg 448w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2012\/06\/1387-Robert-Kirschbaum-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1000470\">Robert Kirschbaum<\/a>, Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity, received a Faculty Research Grant in support of his print folio\/artist&#8217;s book, &#8220;The 42-Letter Name.&#8221;\u00a0 The folio consists of forty-two images, reflecting the forty-two letters of one of the secret names of God, an acrostic made of the first letter of each word in a nearly 2,000 year-old prayer, the &#8220;Ana B&#8217;koach,&#8221; ascribed to the Tanna R. Nehunya ben ha-Qanah. The work is a\u00a0 visual &#8220;midrash&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0 commentary &#8212; on concepts found in early Jewish mysticism relating to The Creation.\u00a0 &#8220;The 42-Letter Name&#8221; is on display at Saint Joseph College Art Gallery through December 19, 2010.\u00a0<em><br \/>\n(photo courtesy of Steven Laschever)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more on Kirschbaum and the 42 Letter Name, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwos.org\/RobertKirschbaum\">http:\/\/www.cwos.org\/RobertKirschbaum<\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kirschbaum, Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity, received a Faculty Research Grant in support of his print folio\/artist&#8217;s book, &#8220;The 42-Letter Name.&#8221;\u00a0 The folio consists of forty-two images, reflecting the forty-two letters of one of the secret names of God, an acrostic made of the first letter of each word in a nearly 2,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}