The latest issue of Themelios includes a gem for those who care for young children: David Shaw’s “Telling the Story from the Bible? How Story Bibles Work.”
Shaw includes lots of pictures from popular story-Bible books for children to illustrate his points. This is by far the most thoughtful piece I’ve read on this.
Here’s Shaw’s outline:
1. Did God Really Say . . . ? The Relationship between Story-bible Text and Scripture
1.1. Story Bible and the Story in the Bible
1.1.1. Omission
1.1.2. Addition
1.1.3. Reformulation
1.1.4. Transposition
1.2. Story Bibles and the Story of the Bible [Read more…] about How Story-Bible Books for Children Work