Debra Band is a Hebrew-manuscript artist living in Potomac, Maryland. She is the author and illuminator of The Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden (Jewish Publication Society, 2005); I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms in collaboration with Arnold J. Band, (Jewish Publication Society, 2007); Arise! Arise! Deborah, Ruth and Hannah, in collaboration with Arnold J. Band (Honeybee in the Garden, 2012); Kabbalat Shabbat: The Grand Unification, with Raymond P. Scheindlin (Honeybee in the Garden, 2016); All the World Praises You: an Illuminated Aleph-Bet Book, in collaboration with Arnold J. Band (Honeybee in the Garden, 2018); and Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, in collaboration with Menachem Fisch (Baylor University Press, 2023). Her artwork interprets these texts through a new, Jewish iconographic vocabulary that she has been developing for many years, drawn from midrash and biblical texts, and from related Jewish and general Western and Middle Eastern culture and modern science.