For example, in a gallery dedicated to art from Spain, North Africa and the Western Mediterranean, a small, 15th-century Hebrew Bible is on display.
Its gallery of characters includes a Bible-thumping couple of mixed race, the kindly Indian caretaker of a church in which the boys spend the night (Patrick Shining Elk), a raving gun nut, and a divorced nurse (Jeanne Heaton) who takes the boys under her wing late in their odyssey.
Costco's price of $1,550 for a Chagall Bible Series lithograph was $500 to $1,000 less than a gallery would have charged, Mr. Pernicone said.
In the first gallery an assortment of illuminated manuscripts — psalters, gospels, epistles and a Bible or two — trace the liberation of drawing from its subservient role in richly colored illuminated texts.
But there are also several galleries on the second floor devoted to a selection from the Bible etchings commissioned in the 1930s by the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard.
A decade ago, he filled entire galleries with his big lead books, their etched texts referencing the Bible, Greek mythology and the elliptical poetry of Paul Celan, one of his abiding touchstones.
In 2005 Tate Britain removed God is Great, John Latham's sculpture featuring copies of a Bible, a Qur'an and a Talmud, because, according to a gallery statement, it was not "appropriate" in the sensitive post-7/7 climate.
The owners of the gallery, Barbara and Helmut Zitzwitz, said the building was built in 1927 by the Methodist Church as a Bible depository.
The same year, the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, unveiled a new exhibit which galleried Biblical images in art and pop culture, including a promotional poster for "Simpsons Bible Stories".
The archives contain 8th-century parchments, and the library's valuable manuscripts include a 7th-century Visigothic Bible and the 11th-century Lombard Laws; there are also a museum and a picture gallery.
