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Title: DK Illustrated Family Bible by Claude-Bernard Costecalde, Peter Dennis ISBN: 0-7894-1503-8 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Really hideous artwork.
Comment: Not up to the quality of most DK books - beware! Only a few small photographs here and there. Mostly drawn illustrations that look very dated. The artwork spoils what otherwise would be an OK book overviewing the Bible. Also weighs about 20 lbs! Hard to hold.
Rating: 5
Summary: An ideal starting place
Comment: This book provides an excellent presentation because it smoothes out the Bible and provides a coherent, easily comprehensible, linear framework of understanding. The most helpful aspect of this arrangement of material is that in the section covering the Gospel books, it presents selected chapters in chronological order (Sunday School materials might have set a precedent here).
It's like an ideally arranged compendium of Sunday School booklets, with helpful background sections introducing major parts of the Bible. It uses a classic style of graphics, combined with various types of art as DK Publishing excels in.
Everyone who is studying Christianity should read this first, to set up a basic framework of understanding. This book portrays clearly and efficiently a point of reference to answer "What is the orthodox conventional reading of the Bible?"
This book reveals the anti-Semitism that builds up in the book of Acts; the Jews who supposedly persecuted the Christians are always shown in a two-dimensional, cardboard way, with mean expressions on their faces. This book clearly portrays the conventional Christian reading of this material. It's a good, clear portrayal of the standard orthodox way of reading the Bible.
There is an appendix of people's names in the back. The book lacks, most of all, a set of genealogy diagrams. It has a fairly good map in front, but could use more maps or at least a guide to the little maps that are dispersed throughout.
It has a great index. After reading the book cover-to-cover, I highlighted the 50% of the index entries that are least clear to me, to do a 2nd, review pass. I played a Bible trivia game and was inspired to read this book because I lacked too many of the standard Bible stories. I can tell that I'll do much better in that Bible trivia game, and will do even better after reviewing more of the unfamiliar entries I found in this book's index.
I felt that getting through this book required the most perseverance when wading through the section about the kings who did or didn't worship God, and the section about Jesus' parables -- these are covered well, but these weren't the sections of the Bible I was most interested in. My favorite sections of the book -- the subjects I was already most curious about -- were the stories between Eden and the later kings, and the stories between the Crucifixion and Revelation. The book has a nice treatment of Revelation and explains its political context. In the middle of the book, the parables and wisdom literature is covered.
I treasure this book and am glad to have read the Bible in this clear and understandable form. Next, I may read the Bible Handbook by DK Publishing (John Bowker). I'm reading Bowker's 2002 book from DK Publishing, God: A Brief History. I've also read the pocket-size Bible handbook from DK Publishing, which isn't very enlightening -- it's a tiny, somewhat random subset of the Illustrated Family Bible. I also recommend the books by DK Publishing, which I have read, covering Christianity, Myth, World Religions, and Philosophy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent reading and images
Comment: This book is great because it gives a very readable overview of the main Biblical stories. The illustrations are a plus and make the stories easy to absorb and remember. The sidebars provide very useful information. There appears to be a high degree of scholarship in the analyses. Of course, because this is a "family" bible, perhaps a few of the more sordid elements may not be covered. Still, this is a wonderful way to get an overall feel for the Old and New Testaments
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Title: Children's Illustrated Bible by Selina Hastings, Eric Thomas, Amy Burch ISBN: 1564584720 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Complete Bible Handbook: An Illustrated Companion by John Westerdale Bowker, John Bowker ISBN: 0789481545 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Ancient World (World History Series) by Fiona Chandler ISBN: 0746027605 Publisher: Usborne Pub Ltd Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Illustrated Book of Myths: Tales & Legends of the World by Neil Philip, Nilesh Mistry ISBN: 0789402025 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Usborne Book of the Ancient World: Combined Volume: Early Civilization/the Greeks/the Romans/ (Illustrated World History) by Jane Early Civilization Chisholm, J. Chisolm, Susan the Greeks Peach, Anthony the Romans Marks, Ian Jackson, Gerald Wood, Anne Millard ISBN: 0746012330 Publisher: E D C Publications Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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