A ‘Michelangelo Code?’
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I haven’t seen it, but it sounds like a new book, “The Sistine Secrets,” is aiming to be a Da Vinci Code II.
But the fact that it was co-written by an Orthodox rabbi is not going to go over well with a lot of people.
The book apparently contends that Michelangelo included secret Jewish codes in his painting of the Sistine Chapel—not to mention insults aimed at Pope Julius II.
The Jewish Week reports that art historians have big problems with the conclusions reached by Rabbi Benjamin Blech and his co-author, Roy Doliner, a docent and guide at the Vatican.
ABC News has given the book a lot of play.
Blech is a respected Talmudic scholar at Yeshiva University (I interviewed him for my book about natural disasters). He says that his new book should be seen as a “bridge between Judaism and Christianity.”
We’ll see about that.
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