Project Description
What’s Really Behind the DaVinci Code? was a Bible society response to the controversial book and film that combined a few scattered truths with outright lies and presented it as fact. This Scripture portion was prepared as a “toolbox” that Bible societies could use in producing a timely response. I selected the passages, wrote the bridge text and did the graphics.
The idea behind a toolbox like this was simple: It was a set of components – consisting of text and graphics – that could be freely used by national Bible societies without restriction. For example:
- The Bible Society of Pakistan used the text and prepared their own graphics.
- The Bible Society of India used both the text and graphics, but in a smaller format.
- The Bible Society of Lebanon produced an Arabic edition.
- Another Bible society posted the PDFs on their website for any church to download, print and use.
The advantage of the toolbox approach for a fast moving, international event is that it gave Bible societies a jump start in producing quick responses, without each one starting from scratch. It is a model I would still like to see integrated into the Bible society movement worldwide.