Testament Final

For my final I was given the task to take all that I had experimented with from Phase A and Phase B. I was advised to think big with whatever idea relative to the book of Daniel. I decided to go a graphic design route and create my own rendition of traveling to the book of Daniel.

Exhibit Title: A Trip to Daniel

Theme: Tourism through the book of Daniel using real life examples

Connection to me/inspiration:

I took Encountering the Old Testament class this past summer and the beginning of the textbook we had for the class explained that we should read through the Bible as if we were traveling to a different country. The author talked about how you went about traveling to a country will depend on your experience you get. You could go on a guided tour and be shown the highlights, you could go with no plan and be thrown into the immersity of their culture and be lost, or you could have a travel guide and still go yourself, so have an educated trip, but still get the immersive experience of their culture. Tourism to a foreign country, there are culture barriers, language barriers, and so forth. We can apply that same idea when reading the Bible. We understand that it was not written in our time period, there is a culture barrier for our understanding, like their music and songwriting and the way they wrote literature, and the language barrier as the Bible has been translated to English multiple times. I fell in love with this idea and try to apply it to my own reading of the Bible.

I wanted to make items that could be found if the viewer were to travel there today to learn about the book of Daniel in Babylon. The book of Daniel took place in Babylon, Babylon can still be found today but you would have to stay in Baghdad or Najar to tour it. This is in modern day Iraq. Normally a tourist would stay in Baghdad and travel out of there to visit Babylon. The viewer would stay at a resort there.