Thursday, March 16, 2006

ANOTHER REVIEW OF THE PARIS EXHIBITION, this one by Gunilla K. Knutsson in Ranskan Uutiset.com:
"Livres de Parole. Torah, Bible, Coran"

An Intellectual, Esthetic and Emotional Experience

During these times of renewed saber-rattling in the name of God, every Christian, Jewish and Muslim extremist should be required to spend a day at the exhibition "Livres de parole. Torah, Bible et Coran", which is showing at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) in Paris until the end of April. Considering that religious fundamentalism again is playing a geopolitical role - in the West as well as in the East - the BNF curators took a brave initiative when they put together a show which traces the history of the three monotheistic religions from their common cradle in Mesopotamia (i.e. modern Iraq) to the present. They have managed to steer away from any potential invitation to polemics, however, by taking a strictly historical and bibliographic approach to the texts and objects on display.

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