The characters depicted here are refreshingly human, the context earth-bound and sometimes disturbing. Many of the scenes echo the spiritual isolation and genocidal devastation of the 20th century. Above all, the action is driven by human, and often minor, characters.
Divine intervention is relegated to the background.
The figure of Jesus is modeled after a Manhattan chef. Everybody is a real person-nothing glamorized or stylized. It's a very powerful book. I wanted people to open this bible and see themselves reflected in the faces of the ordinary people that are pictured there - people who are not well scrubbed and pious, but flawed like most of us. All of the publishing details and design, from typesetting to selection of paper, are Moser's.