New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. First edition - A book in which the author also wrestles with good and evil. "Delacroix, a narrative artist of the mid 19th century, portrayed one of the most enigmatic episodes in Genesis. It was said to be his 'spiritual testimony,' and it took him eight years to complete. In the manner of an intuitive detective, Kauffmann investigates the painting and the church that houses it. Stroke by meticulous stroke, he uncovers the paintings deeper meaning the struggle with God for the artist and for himself, as he attempts to put his own troubled past into perspective." (A foreign correspondent, he was imprisoned in Beirut from 1985 to 1988) Translated from the French by Patricia Clancy. Bibliography. 198 pp.