The desert-dwelling, tent-living, sheep-herding, camel trading, and market place visiting of Bible people shouldn't conjure up a storybook/fairytale feeling in our mind when seeing movies and other artistic representations of Bible passages. People live like that nowadays, too, all over the world! It's their daily life – just set in a different environment from ours with its own system of habitation & business.
And also, people in or near those types of settings in ancient times had economies to deal with, studied things like astronomy, put together armies, and constructed great architecture.
They were just like us.
I got that thought while watching bits and pieces of this "
Abraham" movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109036/
If you checked it out at all, you can carry on that same frame of mind for viewing verse-by-verse representations like "The Visual Bible: Matthew":
Dry, emotionless, or Shakespearean-like readings don't help either. These movies (as well as the highly dramaticized "The Prince of Egypt" and
this live-action
Moses film) help put the humanity back in focus. And of course, making sense of the Bible greatly helps solidify seemingly nebulous passages/scenes; read more and study the main point – the "gospel message."
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