The little bible fox
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The little bible fox |
| Original title | Tezuka Osamu no Kyūyaku Seisho Monogatari ( 手塚治虫 の 旧約 聖 書 物語 ) or Seisho Monogatari for short ( 聖 書 物語 ) |
| Country of production | Japan , Italy |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 26th |
| German-language first broadcast |
05/27/1996 - 03/22/97 on Sat 1 |
The little bible fox ( Japanese 手塚治虫 の 旧約 聖 書 物語 , Tezuka Osamu no Kyūyaku Seisho Monogatari , "Osamu Tezuka's story of the Old Testament ", English In the Beginning: The Bible Stories , Italian. In principio: Storie dalla Bibbia ) is one 26-part animated series based on the books by the author Hidenori Kumai , illustrated by Kozumi Shinozawa and Atsuko Ogawa and published by Manga Messiah . The series covers the story of the Old Testament from the Bible from the creation of the world and man by God to the birth of Jesus in easy-to-understand language for children.
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The narrator of the story often quotes passages from scriptures. Examples: “God said there should be light! and there was light. And God was pleased with what he saw. Then he separated the light from the darkness and called the light day and the darkness night. And the night went and the morning came, this was the first day. ”“ Be fruitful and multiply and ... ”“ And of all living things, of all flesh, you shall bring two of all into the ark ... ”“ ... do it Ark and seal (seal) it inside and out with pitch ... "
A small, male fox tells of the events from the Old Testament, from creation to the birth of Jesus, and usually intervenes clumsily in what is happening. In the episode Noah's Ark he finally finds a companion. In some episodes God also intervenes indirectly through messengers (angels in white robes) in the course of the story.
Title of each episode
| German title | Japanese title | Italian title |
|---|---|---|
| Adam and Eve | 天地 創造 | In principle ... |
| Cain and Abel | カ イ ン と ア ベ ル | Il Figli Di Adamo |
| Noah's Ark | ノ ア の 箱 舟 | L'Aventura Di Noe |
| The Tower of Babel | バ ベ ル の 塔 | Una Torre Fino Al Cielo |
| Abraham | 父 ア ブ ラ ハ ム | Ismaele |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | ソ ド ム と ゴ モ ラ | Sodoma e Gomorrah |
| Isaac and Ishmael | イ サ ク と イ シ ュ マ エ ル | Ismaele |
| The exam | ア ブ ラ ハ ム 、 イ サ ク を 捧 げ る | Il destino di Isacco |
| Joseph and his brothers | ヨ セ フ の 夢 占 い | Venduto Dai Fratelli |
| The seven lean years | ヤ コ ブ 一族 の 再 会 | Il Trionfo Di Giuseppe |
| Moses | モ ー セ の 誕生 | Mosè l'egiziano |
| The burning bush | 砂 漠 の 火 | Il fuoco nel deserto |
| The ten plagues | モ ー セ と フ ァ ラ | Mosè e il faraone |
| The exodus from Egypt | エ ジ プ ト 脱出 | L'Esodo |
| The Ten Commandments | 十戒 | La legge scolpita sulla pietra |
| The golden calf | イ ス ラ エ ル の 裏 切 り | Vitello d'oro |
| The promised land | 約束 の 地 | La Terra Promessa |
| Jericho | エ リ コ | Gerico |
| The King of Israel | 初 め て の 王 サ ウ ル | Un Re Per Israele |
| David and Goliath | サ ウ ル の 敗北 | La Sconfitta Di Saul |
| Natan the Prophet | ダ ビ デ 王 | Il Seme Di Davide |
| King Solomon | ソ ロ モ ン の 王国 | Il Regno Di Salomone |
| Captured in Babylon | バ ビ ロ ン 捕 囚 | L'esilio di Israele |
| The end of captivity | 奴隷 か ら の 解放 | Gerusalemme, Gerusalemme |
| Three wise men from the Orient | 砂 漠 の 預言者 た ち | Profeti del deserto |
| The birth of Jesus | イ エ ス の 誕生 | Una stella brilla ad Oriente |
Summary of the consequences
episode 1
In Adam and Eve in the world in six days and the subsequent creation of the first man, is from the creation of Adam and Eve and their life and eventual banishment from Paradise Garden of Eden tells and the birth of Cain and Abel.
Episode 2
Cain and Abel is about the actions of Cain and Abel and the making of an offering to God. When a sacrifice is rejected, the scorned Cain kills his brother Abel. One learns of God's reaction to this.
Episode 3
Noah's Ark deals with the destructive, God-made Flood. Only Noah, to whom God sent a sign, can escape with his family and a pair of all living animals on his self-made ark.
Episode 4
The Tower of Babel tells the story of the building of a tower with which people want to come closer to God. God is angry and ensures with the confusion of languages that people no longer understand one another.
Episode 5
Abraham shows how the son of a descendant of Noah leaves the land of Haram to become the progenitor of a new people as commanded by the only true God. He also rejects all (false) gods. He first fathered the son Ishmael with the slave girl Hagar, then with his wife Sarah his second son Isaac .
Episode 6
It deals with the entry of Lot and his people into the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah . But God realizes that people do not respect him, and he destroys the two places. Only Lot and his people manage to escape. When Lot's wife looked around forbidden again, she was punished by God and solidified into a pillar of salt.
Episode 7
When Abraham had already given up hope of having children of his own, God sent him news of the birth of his two sons. Ishmael's mother is the slave Hagar and the mother of Isaac is Abraham's wife Sarah. Abraham's wife wants her husband to drive out Hagar and Ishmael, but Abraham doesn't want it. Because of Sarah's resentment, Hagar and Ishmael voluntarily move to the desert. Their descendants are the Ishmaelites , the ancestors of part of the Arabs .
Episode 8
Abraham and his entourage traveled from the city of Haran to the land of Canaan . Lot and other survivors join Abraham's clan. Isaac is growing up. God wants Abraham to sacrifice his son to test his strength of faith.
Episode 9
Joseph , whom his father supposedly always preferred to his older brothers, is sold into slavery in Egypt. So he arrives at Pharaoh's court and predicts seven good and seven bad years for Egypt.
Episode 10
The Seven Lean Years tells of the famine predicted by Joseph and its consequences for Egypt. There is also hunger in the land of Canaan, which drives the inhabitants to Egypt to buy food. His older brothers meet Josef. He forgives them for their wrongdoing.
Episode 11
Moses is born and abandoned by his parents to save him. He is found by an Egyptian woman and arrives at the court of the Egyptian ruler. There he worked his way up from a slave to the Pharaoh's confidante.
Episode 12
Moses ends up in the desert after murdering an Egyptian at the royal court. He becomes a shepherd to a nomad family he meets there.
Episode 13
The Hebrews had a difficult life in Egypt and moved away after God plagued the Egyptians.
Episode 14
God divides the waters of the sea for the Hebrews. The refugees successfully cross the desert. The Egyptians will be destroyed by God's hand; He sends the Hebrews a miracle (meat and flour) to help them.
Episode 15
Moses climbs Mount Sinai . There God gives him the Ten Commandments, meanwhile the Hebrews are building a temple to honor God. They lose trust in Moses because he does not return, eventually turn away from the one true God and create an idol for themselves .
Episode 16
Because they have lost faith in God, the Hebrews build a temple and pay homage to an idol in the form of a golden calf . But Moses is angry and destroys the idol on God's behalf. Moses brings the mountain the board with the Ten Commandments down and proclaims this, then the stone tablets will in the ark kept.
Episode 17
The Israelites move on with Moses through the desert into the land of Canaan. With God's help they defeat all their enemies. Through miracles sent by God (desert rain, etc.) they survive the dangerous march through the desert. Before they reach Canaan, God's prophecy is fulfilled and Moses dies. Joshua leads the Israelites to Canaan as his successor.
Episode 18
Joshua leads the Israelites to Jericho . With God's help and through the sound of trumpets, the previously impregnable city falls on the seventh day of the siege.
Episode 19
The tribes of Israel fight each other in the name of God for supremacy in the Promised Land . Only King Saul creates peace and unites the different tribes.
Episode 20
King Saul brings young David to court as a musician to distract himself from the ongoing fighting. David promises the king to defeat the giant Goliath . King Saul turns away from God. When he dies, David becomes the new king of Israel.
Episode 21
The Hebrews reach and conquer the city of Jerusalem, the royal palace and the idols are destroyed. David unites the Twelve Tribes of Israel , but the neighboring tribes remain hostile to them. To honor God, they want to build a temple. David has a premonition that this would anger God, and the building does not take place.
Episode 22
King David's successor, King Solomon, is allowed to build the temple with the Ark of the Covenant in the middle. He earns himself a high reputation for making harsh but fair judgments. He warns his people again not to leave the path of God and thereby anger God.
Episode 23
Jerusalem is conquered by the Babylonians. The Israelites are brought into slavery in Babylon . But their hard life is made bearable by believing in their God, whom they hope will one day redeem them.
Episode 24
During the long Babylonian captivity, the Israelites wrote the scriptures of the Old Testament. The Persians under King Cyrus conquer and destroy the city of Babylon. The Israelites are allowed to move into their homeland.
Episode 25
After 50 years in exile in Babylon, the Israelites are rebuilding the destroyed Jerusalem. God repeatedly urges people to believe only in the only, true God. The Romans occupied all of Israel, yet the Israelites have not yet lost the faith in God who saved them many times. The coming of the Messiah is prophesied by a star . The angels foretell the birth of the Messiah to Mary. The three wise men go in search of the Holy Child with gifts . The first Bible translations in foreign languages are written.
Episode 26
Because of a census, all Israelites have to go to their place of birth, including Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem . The star of Bethlehem heralds the birth of the Messiah ( Jesus Christ ). Because all the hostels in Bethlehem are full, they seek shelter in a stable where the Messiah will be born. A bright light from heaven announces the birth of the Son of God to people.
characters
main characters
- The little bible fox
Minor characters
- Adam and Eve (eps. 1)
- Cain and Abel (eps. 2)
- Noah and his family (eps.3)
- Inhabitants of the city of Babel (eps.4)
- Abraham (eps. 5)
- Lot and his family, residents of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (episode 6)
- Ishmael, Sarah and Isaac, Hagar, Abraham (eps. 7)
- Abraham, Isaac, Abimelech and his warriors (eps.8)
- Joseph and his eleven brothers, Egyptian pharaoh, nomad family (episodes 9 to 14)
- Moses (episodes 11 to 15)
- Aaron (episodes 11 to 16)
- Zibora (episodes 12 to 16)
- People of Israel (eps. 10, 11, 13 to 20, 24, 25)
- Josuar (eps. 17, 18)
- Amurrites , residents of the city of Jericho (eps. 17)
- Rahab (eps. 18)
- Deborah, Gidion, Midianite people (eps. 19)
- Lamit, giant Goliath, Michalk, Samuel, King Saul (episode 20)
- David, then King David (episode 20, 21)
- King Solomon (eps. 21, 22)
- Queen of Sheba (eps. 21)
- King Nebuchadnezzar (episodes 22 to 24)
- Well, Ibija (episode 22, 23)
- Persian king Guross, prince Beshzar, Babylonian king Cyrus (episode 24)
- The Magi, Jesus Christ, Virgin Mary, Romans, King Herod (episode 25, 26)
Speaker and dubbing
| role | Japanese speakers | German voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| teller | Thomas Albus | |
| Adam | Kinryu Arimoto | Ekkehardt Belle |
| Eve | Yorie Terauchi | Ute Brankatsch |
| God | Hidekatsu Shibata | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Cain | Katsuhiro Kitagawa | Walter von Hauff |
| Abel | Mitsuru Miyamoto | Crock Krumbiegel |
| Bible fox | Mayumi Tanaka | Sandra Schwittau |
| Moses |
Tessho Genda Manabu Ino |
Ulrich Bernsdorff |
| Pharaoh | Mitsuru Miyamoto | Willi Roebke |
| Abraham | Seizō Katō | Norbert Gastell |
| Jacob | Yonehiko Kitagawa | Niels Clausnitzer |
| Noah | Yuzuru Fujimoto | Walter Reichelt |
| Noah's wife | Sho Saito | Alice Franz |
| Amram | Thomas Rauscher | |
| Slave traders | Walter Reichelt | |
| High priest | Thomas Reiner | |
| King Saul | Takaya Hashi | Randolf Kronberg |
| David |
Unsho Ishizuka Hiro Yuuki |
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| Giant Goliath | Yu Shimaka | Manfred Erdmann |
| Lot | Ryuji Nakagi | Fred Maire |
| Lot's wife | Dagmar Dempe |
production
The companies RAI and Tezuka Productions were responsible for the production of the Japanese original edition of the series from 1980 to 1992 based on the books by Osamu Tezuka on behalf of Nippon Animation . The Vatican as well as the channels and companies Christian Broadcasting Network , Tatsunoko Production , Nippon TV , Radiotelevisione Italiana and RAI Uno have also contributed to the production of the series. Directed by Osamu Dezaki , Osamu Tezuka was responsible for the effects. The script was written by Luciano Scaffa , Guerrino Gentilini and Luca Lamonaca . Osamu Tezuka and Shinji Seiya acted as designers of the figures . The music is by Katsuhisa Hattori , produced by APU Studio . The companies Tezuka Production , Cosmos Studio and Takahashi Production supported the animation, script, recording and production of the series. The German synchronization took Marika of Radvanyi , Ute Weitzel and Stephan Keicher and the company Raino .
TV broadcast and other publications
From October 2, 1989 to 1997, the series had television premiere in Japan on NTV Broadcasted Television Series. From 1991 the series was broadcast for the first time in Germany on premiere. It also ran from 1993 to 2012 on Pro 7 , Sat 1 , Kabel 1 , TM3 , Tele 5 , KIKA , Junior , Premiere Start and Anixe . In Italy, the series was broadcast on RAI in 1992 , and it was also shown in Austria.
Two computer games were also published for the series under the titles Der kleine Bibelfuchs (Part 1) and Der kleine Bibelfuchs (Part 2) . The complete series was also released as an audio book.
The author Yoshikazu Yasuhiko also created a book (English title: In the Beginning: Bible Stories ) with drawings by Jane Ray, published by Orchard Books in 1997, as well as another manga series entitled The God of Manga .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation from the Bible 1st Book of Moses Chapter: 1 Page: 1 Column: 1
- ↑ Bible quote: 1st Book of Moses Page: 1 Column: 2
- ↑ 1st Book of Moses Chapter: 6 Column 2 Verse 19
- ↑ 1st Book of Moses Chapter: 6 Column 2 Verse 14
- ↑ Entry on the Japanese speakers for the series at www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk
- ↑ ANN: Christian Manga, Bible with Japanese Artists Announced (August 24, 2007)
- ↑ Entry on the broadcast dates of the series ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Entry on the series' audio book in the German National Library
