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Re: The Brick Testament - David vs His Own People
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:24:39 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Anders Franzén wrote:
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Nice, as usual.
To be honest, I have never really liked the architecture of The Brick
Testament, it always seemed unauthentic.
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Hi, Anders. The honesty is appreciated. Especially with the oldest Bible
stories, I’ve felt OK taking a fair amount of artistic license in representing
the architecture of these ancient cultures because (as far as I know) no one
today really knows what they looked like. But starting at certain point in
history, we do have a decent knowledge of the types of buildings that ancient
cultures were and were not constructing.
I’d like for the architecture in The Brick Testament to be at least informed by,
if not reflective of what we can know from modern archeology, and when that info
is not available, to at least stay within the bounds of general probability.
But at the same time, I am also motivated to keep The Brick Testament visually
interesting, and that may sometimes cause me to strain the bounds of
believability. When that happens, I suppose I rationalize by reminding myself
that I am illustrating a book that itself infuses history with a liberal amount
of fantasy.
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No more, however, since the
architecture in these new stories look really good.
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Well, that’s really nice to hear. I have finally started to incorporate the
knowledge that ancient cities and strongholds were built upon hills or man-made
hills. I thought my depiction of the stronghold at Mahanaim looked a little
Disney to be truthful, but I was very happy how the Abel Beth-Maacah city turned
out.
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I also like how the people of Abel Beth-Maacah is cutting Sheba’s head of
with a bronze double-axe, similar to those from the Minos culture of the same
times. These stories took place during the Bronze Age, right?
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The David stories are set in about 1,000 BCE, whereas (Wikipedia informs me) the
Minoan culture on Crete flourished from approximately 2700 to 1450 BCE. It is
noted in the Bible that the Philistines had iron chariots (which is given as the
reason God himself could not defeat them!), so the King David stories would be
set in the early Iron Age.
I actually thought people might see the “Viking” double-headed axe as
anachronistic. I realized I needed an axe for the decapitation scene and looked
through my LEGO axe bin and pulled out one I hadn’t gotten a chance to use yet
and looked pretty cool. It crossed my mind that it might not be the style of
axe that Israelites circa 1,000 BC would be most probably using, but it also
didn’t seem like a ridiculous improbability.
-Brendan
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| (...) Nice, as usual. To be honest, I have never really liked the architecture of The Brick Testament, it always seemed unauthentic. No more, however, since the architecture in these new stories look really good. I also like how the people of Abel (...) (16 years ago, 19-Mar-08, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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