On-line Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible
Jun 15th, 2005 by cadmus
This is pretty cool. Calling all artists and artisans. At the website Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible
their plan is to provide an illustration for every verse in the Bible. They are using the King James with Apocrypha for the text. They are letting anyone provide artwork for the verses. When you go check it out you’ll see many different art forms and interpretations. Some are cool and some made me say, “Whuh!?!”. Mostly because I didn’t get it, but others will probably say it’s awesome. I’ve enjoyed seeing the differing methods and ideas the artists used to illustrate the verses. Every style under the sun is represented. Because there are so many verses in the Bible you can spend quite a bit of time browsing. As of this writing, 33,480 verse still need to be illustrated.
On the FAQ page they state that you have permission to use the illustrations, providing you give proper credit. I’m already planning to use some of the illustrations for the Minor Prophets class I’m teaching. Very, very cool.
Here are some samples:
Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 3:4 - And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.
Some have already been done for Lamentations. For some reason that kind of surprised me. Check this out:
Lamentations 1:2 -
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Mark 15:25 - And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
I like the use of cloth (think about it) to illustrate Father and Son in this one:
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Acts 1:9 - And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
HT: Althouse: “3170 illustrations complete; 33495 remaining.”
