Bizarre. Yesterday, the BBC featured a video segment of some RE students reading from The Manga Bible. The piece was presented by Robert Piggott, the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent. The report gave the impression that the Manga Bible was brand new. In fact, it's been kicking around for ages.
What's stranger is that Piggott also covered the Manga Bible on the Today Programme, just before Christmas last year. And that last November, the BBC covered it in a magazine feature on quirky Bible translations (in which I was also quoted).
Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of the Manga Bible - if it's understood as a way of stimulating interest in the sacred page. It's just strange that more groundbreaking formats of the Bible - such as for the Kindle reader - go unreported while the Manga Bible hogs the limelight.
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