This illustrated beginner’s guide to the Bible features essential information on the Old Testament in a straightforward and easy-to-read format.Brush up on the Bible with this full-color guide to the most important ideas and figures of the Old Testament. Featuring fully illustrated infographics of key events such as the story of creation, the exodus from Egypt, the wisdom of King Solomon, and much more, The Infographic Guide to the Bible will entertain and educate all readers!
A little superficial perhaps, my biggest grievance though is that although The structure of everything is lists of this & whatever, there aren’t any accompanying chronological references as to when things piled up upon one another, or which came first or last ? A small side note would be; why does The Torah &/or Bible end ? It seems to me that they should both ( along with many others ) continuously document The spiritual & secularist history of The World, & perhaps be a little more storish ! ? ? ? A casual preview of this encyclopedia would easily be equivalent to reading 84% of The Torah ( ? )
The Infographic Guide to the Bible: Old Testament is a collection of graphics combined together to help supplement and provide context to the information found in the Old Testament of the Bible.
The book is organized into sections based on the order of the books within said source thus it starts off with the Creation before proceeding to the Fall and into further history of the Jews. At the same time readers will find additional information such as information on theophany and the sacred feasts. Unfortunately, though, a lot of the information is rather commonly found in the Bible and as such makes the book almost obsolete as a supplement read.
The book is done in bright full-page colors with bold font and generic silhouettes thus erasing any facial traits of said characters.
Unfortunately, though, some of the information is suspect... Just within the graphic of Adam and Eve it states the facts that just touching the tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil was disobeying God when it wasn't a part of the command but an addition. This was then later followed on the timeline with a blurb about Adam & Eve feeling shame for the first time, hiding from God who then cursed them for their disobedience. And that is then followed by a second blurb that they made clothes for themselves. Clearly they felt shame and made clothes for themselves before hiding from God while the second blurb would have been correct if it stated God made them robed. As a result if you are going to use this as a Bible study book for little ones read over it and allow yourself to see what you may have ti correct or help to better explain to your little one.
All in all the book can be used to help explain some concepts and to give a bit further context to some of these older stories but it shouldn't be used to replace reading the Bible itself.
Helpful visual overview of key concepts not great on Kindle
The info graphic provides a helpful overview of major people and events in the Old Testament and would be good for visual learners. It is one of those fixed format types of books, which is not good at all to try to read on the Kindle. If you had a physical copy of the book, that may be a much better idea to use as a resource.
Great introduction to the Bible with some good information in graphic format
This is a good tool to explain the Bible to folks who are new to christianity or don't have an understanding of the story of the Bible. It is very informative to refresh those who may have forgotten some of the information.
This is a great teaching tool and like someone once said it's a teachable moment. It gives you great background and history and what better then infographics.
Helpful and creative. Ambitious in scope. Considerable range in the effectiveness of the visuals to communicate the concepts but a valiant attempt to make difficult concepts meaningful.