Bible Illuminated

"Yes, that’s quite provocative. It’s an example of the way Bible Illuminated likes to juxtapose images and text in ways that don’t make obvious or immediate sense. The gun image is used in Matthew when the text says: ‘I do not come to bring peace, but a sword.’ The text is highlighted in yellow and it’s used as a caption under a picture of a boy holding a semi-automatic weapon. I really like this Bible. It’s evocative without being interpretative and the visual images are stunning. It’s a more aesthetic approach to biblical literature. It has no commentary or notes – just an occasional textual highlight and an image with a loose connection to it. It’s not obvious how they relate and it creates, almost like a parable, a tension in the mind with no obvious resolution. It destabilises how one might read that text in relation to the image, and vice versa. For young people who haven’t found a way to engage with biblical literature, Bible Illuminated might open something up."