Jesus of Nazareth Bendable Figure

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Our purpose in creating Biblical Action Figures is to help children identify with the Bible characters represented, and to inspire children to learn the teachings of the Bible,” the site reads.

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Andre Kalich, president of Train Up a Child, said in an e-mail: “Our hope is, when children have contact with our action figures it will cause them to have questions about the Bible characters and the adult will have an opportunity to teach (train). And those imaginations might not shut down just because the figures represent characters from Holy Scriptures. com), Ken Wohlrob wrote: “What’s really interesting is that most of these manufacturers overlook one basic fact—that action figures are to be used with an imagination.Accoutrements is the wholesale, parent company of Archie McPhee, and the company that actually manufactured the Jesus Action Figure.

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And that includes everything from da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” to a child’s illustrated version of the Bible. Find educational and Christian toy gifts, bible toys, dolls and figures like Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Moses, David, Goliath and lots more, made by toy manufacturers like The Almighty Heroes, Biblequest, Deluxe Miracle Jesus and Bible Greats. In today’s world of ‘manmade super heroes,’ children need to be reminded of Bible individuals who were genuine heroes,” reads the promotion on the site. Kalich also indicated that the company had received positive feedback about the figures, especially from people working in early childhood and religious education.Flannel board figures, while not three-dimensional, have offered children a means of acting out stories with Bible characters for decades.

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The product information also indicates that the figures will create “hours of fun for acting out the Christmas story.If this had been a Catholic toy, it would have come complete with a ring-pull to make Jesus do the sign of the cross and play ‘Ave Maria’. Nativity sets are comprised of biblical figures, though they probably don’t have moveable arms and legs. Folklorist Simon Bronner, in Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America, wrote that touch is important because its “association with the hand implies the grip of possession. If there is an ethic behind biblical action figures, it may have less to do with which figures are put into plastic and more to do with how Jesus—in the hands of children—behaves. That is, people become invested in ideas when they can experience them through other senses, especially touch.