50 years “Picture Bible” – German anniversary edition “The Bible in the Bild”, Adventist Press Service Germany APD, History, History, History, History

The first edition of the biblical stories from Adam and Eva to Paul in 1975 appeared in 1975 the “Picture Bible” name with Christian publisher David C. Cook in Colorado, USA. The comic was a world bestseller and has been translated into 130 languages. In 1977 “Die Bible in the picture” was published by Canstein Bible Institute in Westphalia in German and is considered the most read Biblecomic series in Germany. Until Hute, fifteenth parts series “The Bible in the Bild” in the state-woei church will be died and gilded as a “longseller” in German Bible rescue company. The Target Gune-Sind-Hunger-Hunger Teenager, also weekly readers of the Boomer generation, know the series since childhood.

Umitated style of the illustrator André Leblanc

At that time, the aim of the American publisher was to set a friendly affordable teaching material at risk of poverty. During André Leblanc as an illustrator, the editor Iva Hoth was chosen to add the text to the pictures. The colored illustrated stories in the superhero are visually distinctive, but stay close to the original. So at the time of the old testamentians -a theological bolt after the violent discussion broke out about whether the comic style represents the sensitivity of the biblical message appropriately.

The illustrator Le Blanc was born in Haiti in 1921 and later lived in the USA and Brazil. He was a member of the Art Students League in New York and began his career as a comic and children’s book drawer in the late 1930 years. Le Blanc created his own works, but also a well -known comics “Flash Gordon” in the background. His greater success war die “picture Bible”. Le Blanc died in 1998 at the age of 77. In an interview in May 2001, the director of Cook Communications Ministry International, Ralph Gates, estimated that 75 Milen example of the “Pildy Bible” all over the world became aware. The image material is still used in religion instruction. The 15-part series now appears as a bound anniversary edition of the German Bible Society in the Schuber.

Comic series “The Bible in the picture”. 50 years of anniversary output, 15 parts series, German Bible Society, 936 pages, 138 euros, ISBN: 978-3438042996

German Bible Society (DBG)

The German Bible Society (DBG), based in Stuttgart, opens the biblalls, develops and denies Bible editions and energetic stepmowers to the botochaft of the Bible. It is a culmination of the public steering foundation based in Stuttgart. The World Bible Aid of the DBG Unterstein Sams with the World Association of Bible Societies (United Bible Societies) worldwide the oversetting and spreading of the Holy Schliff. The Free Church of the Seventh Day Adventists is also one of the members of the DBG full finish. More information under www.diebibel.de

Religious -educational material of the RPI

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