Robert Kirschbaum, Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity, received a Faculty Research Grant in support of his print folio/artist’s book, “The 42-Letter Name.”  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 “Ana B’koach,” ascribed to the Tanna R. Nehunya ben ha-Qanah. The work is a  visual “midrash” —  commentary — on concepts found in early Jewish mysticism relating to The Creation.  “The 42-Letter Name” is on display at Saint Joseph College Art Gallery through December 19, 2010. 
(photo courtesy of Steven Laschever)

For more on Kirschbaum and the 42 Letter Name, visit: http://www.cwos.org/RobertKirschbaum