The Bible, Illuminated
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- TheBlueOne
"...the 286 glossy pages of Bible Illuminated: The Book for yourself. More high-end magazine than your typical Bible, the approved American Bible Society text is laid out in easy-to-read columns and paragraphs using chapter headings only, no verses. Totally unique in format and design, the contemporary photographs complement the story, provoke thought and connect to your everyday life."
Even a heathen like myself appreciates this...
- ********0
nice, will buy it
- erikjonsson0
you sure its not a diesel ad publish?
- ********0
no, i will buy it
- teleos0
New Testament. Interesting.
- brandelec0
would be cool if was old testament
- ukit0
Kind of an ugly cover. Interesting concept though.
- harlequino0
Now one can roll up the Bible to smack the dog when he pooes in the house, making it more Crusadish.
- sikma0
i agree with teleos - Old Testament would've been way cooler
- Nairn0
- You forgot to wrap it in the flag first...TheBlueOne
- I have nothing against your flag.Nairn
- SteveJobs0
so it's getty images meets the printed word of God...
huh..
- Mal0
Who wrote it?
- PonyBoy0
way to miss the point of the Bible
- to scare people into doing the right thing?DrBombay
- What? It's all a bit of light relief, innit? Perfect for leaving on the coffee table or in the bathrooom..Nairn
- no, to scare people into doing what supports your political aimsscarabin_net
- i believe the point of the Bible is read God's message directly - to teach, reprove... to guide in all things...PonyBoy
- ... unfortunately both sides of politics attempt to use it for their own purposes and fail to apply it's council in the process.PonyBoy
- *hypocritically rolls a peach bluntPonyBoy
- How does it miss the point of the bible?TheBlueOne
- it turns it into a light-hearted picture book... the bible is far from light-hearted... the focus is now on pictures...PonyBoy
- ... it's visual enough in tone - i've never understood a picture Bible - it's all about the written word (at least it is to me)PonyBoy
- just my opinionzPonyBoy
- light-hearted was the wrong word, btw... the imagery is pretty intense etc - but I think the book doesn't need imagery...PonyBoy
- scarabin_net0
you can paint a turd pink but it's still a piece of shit.
who fuckin' cares.
- mythbusters attempted to polish one - but yeah... it was still a turd in the end.PonyBoy
- robco0
hmm... so who agrees that books are always better than the movies that follow? The reason is because they allow the reader to use their imagination to create the images that are the most compelling to and meaningful to themselves. the movies always seem to dissapoint.
i think that the bible is one of those books you need to leave up to people to construct thier own images around. make a movie about it i guess, but does the book need it?
- hmm... on second thought, this is really interesting.robco
- KwesiJ0
serious post: the bible is a complicated peace of ancient history...politics has abused it but thats not its purpose
- you hipsters think everything is about politics and marketingKwesiJ
- keep on believing thatscarabin_net
- i don't 'beleive' that its a fact, a little perspective as they sayKwesiJ
- TheBlueOne0
I happen to think framing the basic questions the bible holds about human's interaction with the infinite in contemporary images makes it more relevant than using the text in 15th century old english and imagining Jesus as a blue-eyed white dude in turn of the first millenium AD...but I'm a godforsaken heathen so what the hell do I know
- the bible holds answers... not questions. ;)PonyBoy
- You're reading it wrong.TheBlueOne
- *turns bible right side up...
OHHH!PonyBoy - hahaha!TheBlueOne
- teleos0
I like this idea as well.
- b_electro0
That's why I just bought an Anglicized version (NRSV), with really nice type. I also podcast the Daily Audio Bible, which is cheesy but still a good way to get Tha Word. I've tried, but I just can't get thru the "ye, thou, smite, etc" versions.
I don't think I could read this version either- images are too stocky, I don't want to read captions from a non-Biblical source and the overall execution is trying too hard. I'm with Ukit on the cover- it puts me off.
I'd like to see a pure typographical treatment of the Old Testament.
