Manga Messiah | 
 enlarge | Creators: Tyndale, Next
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 180875
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1414316801
Dewey Decimal Number: 226.0950500222
EAN: 9781414316802
ASIN: 1414316801
Publication Date: July 30, 2007
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Product Description
MANGA (pronounced "mahn-ga") is the Japanese word for comics. It has become a huge hit with American teens and tweens. Manga has emerged as the most popular comics category and is one of the fastest growing genres in American publishing. Appealing to kids and adults, readers will find this edgy rendition of the Gospel accounts both compelling and highly engaging. This authentic, cutting-edge art style is combined with fast-paced storytelling to deliver biblical truths to an ever-changing culture that is often a challenge to penetrate. This is genuine Japanese manga style, unlike other Christian "manga" books in the marketplace.
Features: - Gives a unique presentation of the Gospel accounts
- Includes a map of Galilee, Samaria, and Judea
- Includes illustrated character profiles of key Bible people
- Features an illustrated page on the twelve apostles
- A great way to introduce anyone to the Bible
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 Great Tool July 24, 2008
I know the artist personally. We met while I was doing missions work in Japan. She has an amazing heart and wants to use this tool to spread the gospel to the Japanese people. The Japanese version is getting popular in Japan, this English version came later. I wish I could also buy the Japanese version as it is a good gift for Japanese friends. In Japan the comic book culture is not just a kids fad. On the subways you see numerous business people even in their 50's still reading the popular manga comics, its a lifetime hobby.
This is a great gift for someone who is into this style of animation. Kelly (English name) is a brilliant artist! Its also a great read for someone who is interested in new, creative ways of engaging the Japanese people for Christ.
manga messiah May 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Manga Messiah I really enjoy this book. As an EFL
teacher in Japan, I use it for our short story time with the English
and later Japanese version. I appreciate its honesty as my junior
high students can't related to the children's bible anymore.
It's a good way to introduce the young to the bible
Sam
 vile, overt anti-Semitism May 30, 2008
7 out of 35 found this review helpful
According to Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates, based near Boston, the portrayal of Jews found in a Manga comic now sold in [bookstores] depicts "A colorful comic training manual for motivating young leaders of the next pogrom against Jews. Not just offensive--ghastly and horrific in content with a clear enemy scapegoat identified for venting apocalyptic religious bigotry."
another reader writes:
"bought this copy of Manga Messiah at a local [bookstore,] day before yesterday. Tyndale, the Christian publishing house, was also the publisher of the wildly successful Left Behind series, which popularized dispensational Christian Zionism and provided sales of over 60 million books. The growing acceptability in our society of this stereotype of Jews is not happening in spite of the apocalyptic Christian Zionist movement. It is happening because of it! This movement has been the incubator of media objectifying Jews as non human as well as the source of media that is mainstreaming anti-Jewish conspiracy theory. It is dressed up as biblical interpretation or futuristic prophecy but the images are being projected to millions of people all over the world. Even worse, the images are being validated in the minds of these millions as an acceptable way to view Jews because of the visible participation of Jewish leaders with the movement."
Great for kids. April 23, 2008
My hubby and I read this to our 2-year-old. The colorful pages and comic-book style keeps him entertained. It's super. We love this book!
 A successful harmony of the four gospel narratives as a graphic novel January 14, 2008
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
On the whole this is a successful harmony of the four gospel narratives that uses the convention of Japanese manga to produce a graphic novel life of Christ. Biblical citations run along the bottom of each page footnoting the story. However, as with any harmony, some inconsistencies crop up. For example, on page 74 John's version of the scourging of the temple is presented and then on page 218 a shorter version from the synoptic gospels is given along with the accompanying text, "After entering Jerusalem, Yeshuah once again drove out the merchants and money changers." An editorial chronology has been imposed to turn four different versions of the story into one. And since one is so different from the other three, the decision was made to imagine two scourgings at different points in history, one at the beginning of Jesus's public ministry and again at the end. This is a possible, but hardly probable interpretation.
For the most part, these editorial insertions are kept to a minimum. So when these do occur there are all the more startling since the rest of the book adheres so closely to the original texts. Another example is Satan. He first appears as a black shroud with headlight eyes during the temptation in the wilderness and then again, editorially this time, in the same guise in the garden of Gethsemane to taunt Jesus before being transformed into a snake that's stomped by a purple-winged angel with a green sword, presumably St. Michael.
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