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# Illustrated Family Bible: Understanding the Greatest Story Ever Told (DK Bibles and Bible Guides)

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desertcart.com: Illustrated Family Bible: Understanding the Greatest Story Ever Told (DK Bibles and Bible Guides): 0790778150303: Claude-Bernard Costecalde, Peter Dennis: Books

Review: An ideal starting place - 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.
Review: Everybody needs to get this Family Bible!!!! - I just received this Bible today. It is absolutely beautiful! I am very happy that I got it. The layout is gorgeous. The pictures are divine.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #43,447 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Teen & Young Adult Christian Bible Stories #12 in Teen & Young Adult Biblical Studies #1,544 in Christian Bible Study & Reference |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (582) |
| Dimensions  | 9 x 1.2 x 11.31 inches |
| Grade level  | 5 - 12 |
| ISBN-10  | 0789415038 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0789415035 |
| Item Weight  | 4.1 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | DK Bibles and Bible Guides |
| Print length  | 384 pages |
| Publication date  | March 10, 1997 |
| Publisher  | DK Children |
| Reading age  | 5+ years, from customers |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An ideal starting place
*by M***N on July 10, 2002*

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.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Everybody needs to get this Family Bible!!!!
*by S***R on December 8, 2025*

I just received this Bible today. It is absolutely beautiful! I am very happy that I got it. The layout is gorgeous. The pictures are divine.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful Bible with all the premo Stuff!
*by S***Q on February 28, 2023*

I think this bible is for anyone, child to older adult. This inspired word from God is written in an informative way and all the true biblical people come to life. It is beautifully illustrated plus there is informative sidebars that explain the period of time with photos, art, maps, and graphs. This book, which is another lovely DK book, covers from Creation to Revelation. Then an index of who's who is in the back. I love reading it and learning. A good addition to any family (or singles) library.

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