Summer has officially arrived.
With it comes Vacation Bible School.
This has inspired me to explain my artistic representations of stories from the Holy Bible.
My own Bible cartoons cover details and anecdotes that many other cartoonists never cover when they parody these classic tales from Jewish and Christian traditions.
In the beginning,...
I start off with Adam and Eve.
The Forbidden Fruit is typically depicted as an apple, but the Bible only references the "fruit" of the "tree" and mentions no specific fruit.
Jewish scholars maintain that it could have been a fig, grapes, a citron, or wheat.
Since I couldn't make up my mind, Eve is giving Adam all of these four things.
After eating the Forbidden Fruit, Adam and Eve are suddenly aware of their anatomy...and it is only then that they start wearing leaves.
On a side note, Eve didn't have a name until they were kicked out of Eden.
Depictions of the Noah's Ark story typically feature animals that are obviously not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.
As a response, my depiction of the story is meant to be more Bible-accurate in that Noah is only taking care of animals that are mentioned in the Bible.
One interesting thing I learned in college is that when God speaks to Moses through the burning bush, God says, "I am what I am".
Hence, that is what occurs in my representation of the Moses story.
David (of "and Goliath" fame) once spied on a maiden called Bathsheba whilst she was bathing, and then...well...
Let's just say that it didn't end well for her.
From this lesser-known story (found in 2 Samuel 11), I have coined the term "Bathsheban" for mythological peeping tom stories.
Finally, I present my own representation of Jesus Christ upon his resurrection.
The details given in Revelation 1:14-16 are given as follows:
"His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire/And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters".
Thus, I draw the resurrected Jesus as a shining being with fiery eyes.
Metal tends to lose its color when it is melted in a furnace.
This has been the story behind my Bible cartoons here on Mythology Worlds.
Have a blessed summer, and remember:
Love thy neighbor
Judge not lest ye be judged
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
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