Marc Michael Epstein is Professor of Religion and Visual Culture on the Mackie M. Paschall (1899) and Norman Davis Chair at Vassar College.
[4] The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative and Religious Imagination (2011), was named one of the “Best Books of the Year” by the London Times Literary Supplement.
His first book conceptualized Jewish iconography as almost inevitably polemicizing against Christian images, expressing "messages of protest and dreams of subversion,"[6] —a "love story in aggressive garb.
"[7] He continues to observe that concertedly Christian motifs were occasionally—even often—adapted by Jews with didactic or polemic intent (the Flight into Egypt is a particularly obvious example[8]).
[10] Books "If Lions Could Carve Stones..." The Medieval Jewish Minority and the Allegorization of the Animal Kingdom: A Textual and Iconographic Study (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1993) The Jerusalem Haggadah: Gateway to the Haggadah (Jerusalem: Aryeh Editions, 1997) Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature.