ST. LOUIS -- The image glows from 30 feet away. Up close, its gold embellishment is meant to awe onlookers. Using techniques hundreds of years old, a handmade Bible brings an ancient artistic ...

Illustrating Scripture is a tricky proposition. How will you ensure images are inclusive and don’t repel? How will you convey God’s image? Should you? These and other questions are tough to answer, ...

ST. LOUIS — The image glows 30 feet away. Up close, its gold embellishment is meant to awe, and reflect, an onlooker. Using techniques hundreds of years old, a handmade Bible brings an ancient ...

The St. John's Bible%2C commissioned by the Benedictine St. John's University in Minnesota%2C is the first handwritten Bible of its scale since medieval times. The binding of the Bible's Heritage ...

In the beginning, there were hand-ground inks, goose quills, swan feathers and a fervent desire to present God's holy text in a setting of gemlike beauty. The results were medieval "illuminated" ...

Renowned designer Dana Tanamachi brings modern illustrations to the ancient text. Centuries before Christians searched Scripture on illuminated digital screens, the Word of God was “lit up” with ...

How do you create a bible that entices people who don't read the Bible? Swedish advertising guru Dag Söderberg decided recent versions lacked visual punch, so he made a new one with big, glossy photos ...

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. - As Donald Jackson and his scribes worked on a handwritten and "illuminated" Bible, they used an image unavailable to the monks of the Middle Ages: a view of Earth taken from ...

A "dream" is how Crossway's executive VP of creative, Josh Dennis, describes the publisher's newest edition of the Bible, the ESV Illuminated Bible (art journaling ed.). The elaborately detailed work, ...

Medieval illuminated manuscripts absorbed DNA from the anonymous monks and others who made them. Hundreds of years ago, those scribes knew nothing of genetic codes. For the St. John’s Bible, completed ...