The Bible in film made the first attempt to produce a series of films based on the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. "", based largely on the book of Genesis, was to have been the first of these films, but financial challenges cancelled further films. Forty-seven years later, Hearst Corporation and producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett created their own reimagining of the story via a TV miniseries, "The Bible", thus finally fulfilling DeLaurentiis' original 1966 vision. The box office failure "King David", was released in 1985. The New Testament was less frequently turned into major motion pictures. Unlike the Old Testament, the
The Bible Story of creationism. The Bible Story The Bible Story is a ten-volume series of hardcover children's story books written by Arthur S. Maxwell based on the King James and Revised Standard versions of the Christian Bible. The books, published from 1953–57, retell most of the narratives of the Bible in 411 stories. Compared to the source material, the stories are sanitized for young readers, and gloss over elements Maxwell apparently found inappropriate for a child audience (there is, for instance, no mention of circumcision despite the relative prominence of this rite in the Bible text). The books have been marketed in