Heroes of the Bible
by Carolyn Larsen
Book Summary Information
Author: Carolyn LarsenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-07
ISBN: 0801044081
Number of pages: 400
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Baker Books
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Summary: 4 Stars
This review will do two things. First, provide you with a review of the book, and second, provide you with a guide to other religious material in comic form that is on Amazon.com. I am doing this because simply typing comics and religion into the subject search line does not bring up the necessary material. Heros of the Bible is done in a style currently popular in super hero comics. This is popular with teenage boys. This might be the best of the comic Bibles for teenage boys and adults. The artistic style in interesting and dramatic. As in many comics, all of the males have been pumping iron. The muscles are not always large but always seem to be well defined. Everyone is emotionally intense, as teens often are. They are gritting their teeth most of the time and have their eyes closed about half the time. Even Jesus seems to be rarely at peace. I have bought three comic Bibles, this is the only one I myself read all the way through. Nevertheless, even for teens and adults, and definitely for children, The Picture Bible by Hoth is the better choice. You get a lot more comics per dollar, it covers the Bible more completely, and is by far more popular with children. Heros of the Bible was produced by Evangelical Christians, as were the others, but it goes out of its way to present a view of Mary different from the Catholic Church. In the story of the boy Jesus in the temple the text says that Mary and Joseph had other children. In the story of the feast of Cana the text says that Mary ignored the protests of Jesus when she said, "Do whatever this man tells you to do." One could simply felt tip over these phrases. Or Catholic parents might want to simply point out the difficulties and use it as an opportunity to explain the difference between evangelical and Catholic belief. This approach is particularly reasonable because this book is for teens, not children. There are a number of religious books in comic form. But alas you can not just type religion and comics on the subject line and get them. This review will tell you how to find six different religious comics on Amazon.com. You can tell a lot about their artistic style from the cover picture given by Amazon.com. I have bought all but the two volume Gains, comic-strip Bible. You can find my reviews under each. If you do a book search and write Hoth on the author line you will get several versions of The Picture Bible written by Ivan Hoth. If you write "the comic book bible" on the title line you will get The Comic Book Bible written and illustrated by Rob Scruggs. Finally you can find another comic Bible by typing Gaines, M on the author line and comic-strip on the title line. Finally if you type The Big Book of Martyrs you will find a book on Catholic martyrs. One last point, comics have a powerful ability to grab an audience, children, teens, and adults. This makes them a powerful evangelical tool. Per minute of reading they tend to be very expensive if only read once. A twenty page commercial super hero comic costs two dollars. If it takes twenty minutes to read at a leisurely pace, that is six dollars an hour, or twelve dollars for two hours. Much more expensive than a two hour movie. But expensive entertainment is normally priced education, public schools cost six dollars an hour. If they are read repeatedly, which they normally will be, they start becoming cheap education. And finally many of these comics are much cheaper per page than ordinary commercial comics. That is why I recommend them highly as an evangelical medium.
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