"Through approximately 80 engravings, woodcuts, and illustrated Bibles and books by masters such as Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Philips Galle, Hendrick Goltzius, and Hieronymus Wierix, biblical prints are shown to be a dynamic force in the transformation of Northern European art between Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn as well as in the intensified attention to scripture in the religious turmoil of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation."

Contents: Foreword / Ena Giurescu Heller -- Acknowledgements -- Preface / James Clifton -- Bible illustration in the sixteenth-century Low Countries / Walter S. Melion -- Notes -- Catalog / James Clifton ... [et al.] -- Sacred history and geography -- Exegesis -- Worship -- Morality -- Politics and polemics -- Catalog notes -- References -- Bibliography -- Photographic acknowledgements -- Index.

"This catalog accompanies the exhibition Scripts for the eyes: Biblie illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth-Century on display al the Museum of Biblical Art, June 5-Sept. 27, 2009; and at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Oct. 17, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010."