Robert Alter at The New Republic reviews R. Crumb’s The Book of Genesis, a comic-book rendition of the Bible’s first book, which largely makes use of Alter’s own translation:
The jacket of Crumb’s Genesis also announces, with the Crumbian emphasis of two exclamation points: “The first book of the Bible graphically depicted! Nothing left out!” It is unclear whether “the first book of the Bible” means Genesis or is a claim that this is the first time a book of the Bible has been graphically depicted in its entirety. If the latter is the case, it is, as far as I know, an accurate claim; and it is certainly worth pondering what is gained or lost by representing biblical narrative in graphic frames verse by verse, with images for virtually everything, including the begats.
Continue reading at The New Republic.