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Jim Coughenour's avatar

Long long ago I got a MA in theology. I saw Chip Kidd’s cover of Lattimore’s New Testament when it was first published. It was the most theologically profound image I’d ever seen. Of course people hated it, for the reasons Kidd describes. It is still my single favorite book cover because it is bold, horrifying and — if you can abstract — visually stunning. At the core of the New Testament is the brutal murder of a human being.

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Thank you for sharing! I must say, I wouldn't have expected someone with an MA in theology to love that cover. That's such a good point: If you strip all the rest away, it really is just a basic, if bloody, representation of what happens in the story.

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