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This 6 page report discusses the painting by Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606-1669) titled “Belshazzar’s Feast.” It tells the biblical story of a ruler of Babylon who holds a feast using articles stolen from the Jewish temple. During the party, an apparition appears and writes a cryptic message to the ruler and his guests on the wall. Rembrandt portrays a great although often forgotten biblical story in ways that would assure that its impact was felt in ways that might never have occurred in the process of religious instruction.
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Jehovah by throwing a party using articles stolen from the Jewish temple. The second verse of the chapter said that after Belshazzar had tasted the wine, he "commanded to bring
the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines,
might drink therein" (Internet source). While the group indulged themselves, a hand appeared (verse 5): "In the same hour came forth fingers of a mans hand, and wrote over against
the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the kings palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote" (Internet source). This is the scene Rembrandt
Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606-1669) presents in "Belshazzars Feast." Rembrandts "Belshazzars Feast" Rembrandts "Belshazzars Feast" was painted between 1630 and 1635 (now housed at the National Gallery in London)
and offers the viewer Rembrandts unique perspective in terms of his relationship with the Jewish community of Amsterdam. According to a number of historical accounts, from the time he acquired
a large home in the Sint-Anthonisbreestraat (later the Jodenbreestraat) in 1639 until he was had to sell it in 1658 he lived on the boundaries between the Christian world and
the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) also explain that his friends and acquaintances included the "distinguished rabbi, author, and printer Menasseh ben Israel ...
Menasseh, who lived near Rembrandt, ... most probably provided him with the form of the cryptic Aramaic Menetekel inscription from the Book of Daniel that appears on the wall" in
the painting which has been interpreted throughout history to have meant: "God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed in
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