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A spin-off from 1993's The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues collects 31 passages previously featured in the original. [3] Selections from Aesop's Fables, [3] Robert Frost, [3] Frank Crane, [4] and African and Native American folklore [3] are represented in this volume; the legend of George Washington's cherry tree (as related to Mason Locke Weems) [5] makes an encore appearance. [6]
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour, Lucas Cranach the elder "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" (Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תַעֲנֶה בְרֵעֲךָ עֵד שָׁקֶר, romanized: Lōʾ t̲aʿăneh b̲ərēʿăk̲ā ʿēd̲ šāqer) (Exodus 20:16) is one of the Ten Commandments, [1] [2] widely understood as moral imperatives in Judaism and ...
The Bible Story is a ten-volume series of hardcover children's story books written by Arthur S. Maxwell [1] based on the King James and Revised Standard versions of the Christian Bible. The books, published from 1953 to 1957, retell most of the narratives of the Bible in 411 stories. [2] Maxwell started making arrangements for The Bible Story ...
It originally featured six stories from the Book of Genesis. The site now contains over 400 illustrated stories, from both the Old and New Testaments, and over 4,500 images. [9] [10] It had an Alexa traffic rank of 53,191 in April 2007. [citation needed] Each story is tagged if it contains nudity, sexual content, violence and/or cursing. [10]
The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is an animated direct-to-video film series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that tells of three young adventurers who travel back in time to watch biblical events take place. [1] Thirteen videos were released between 1985 and 1992.
The Book of Virtues was mentioned as early as a May 1993 Chicago Tribune story on Bennett, [33] and was published in November 1993 by Simon & Schuster. [2] A four-tape audiobook edition, released the following September, featured readings by the compiler [ 34 ] and guest stars including Michael York and Dana Ivey ; [ 35 ] in this rendition ...
As noted above, however, a number of Christians have criticized the series for including pagan imagery, or even for misrepresenting the Christian story. [25] Christian authors who have criticised the books include fantasy author J.K. Rowling on ethical grounds [26] and literary critic John Goldthwaite in The Natural History of Make-Believe on ...
Allegory is a style of literature having the form of a story, but using symbolic figures, actions, or representations to express truths—Christian truths, in the case of Christian allegory. Beginning with the parables of Jesus , there has been a long tradition of Christian allegory, including Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy , John Bunyan 's ...