The Brick Testament is a project created by Brendan Powell Smith in which Bible stories are illustrated using still photographs of dioramas constructed entirely out of Lego bricks.
The project began as a website in October 2001 that featured six stories from the book of Genesis, and is completely unaffiliated with the Lego company. There is also a Brick Testament book series.
Throughout stories are retold using passages from the Bible, with chapter and verse cited, the wording being a free adaptation that Smith says is based on a number of public domain Bible translations. Occasionally, mostly when images are being used to contrast with the underlying scripture, Smith dramatises the images with his own additional text. Such text is displayed in gray instead of the usual black.
Read more about The Brick Testament: Authorial Commentary, Lego Techniques
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