Hebrew to English, English to....Pictures?

        The King James Bible English translation was protested by many high powered church and government officials in antiquity. At this time, "Wyclif's remains were burned for Englishing the Bible, Tyndale died for it, the Coverdale, Matthew, Geneva, and Rheims translations were made in foreign countries by religious exiles and printed abroad," but today you could find a Bible in any language you could think of. What was all the fuss about? How could translating the Bible into the vernacular language be problematic?

        Further, though it seems crazy to read about how the English translation was contested against by hundreds, isn't that what we are doing today with illustrated Biblical translations? Our country, or better yet the world, would be so remarkably different if the common man couldn't read the words of the Bible. Think about it-- there are Biblical allusions in many government papers and the United States was founded on Christian values. The reason our country was founded on Christian values was because it became more accessible to read the Bible and understand it. In today's world, Biblical literacy is down because people just aren't understanding the concepts. Creating illustrations rendering exactly what was happening, it can be assumed that more people would have access to understanding the Bible. In a few centuries,religious scholars will probably say that our religious authorities were limiting who had access to the Bible just as we often say that in antiquity, the Bible was only for those who could read and understand Greek or Hebrew which limited the audience to a small fraction of the higher class.Not everyone can decode the complicated language and outdated material that flows between the covers of each translation of the Bible, but it's fairly simple to look at a picture and grasp the concept. 

       In a few centuries, are fully illustrated Bible translations going to be the norm? Will future scholars critique the way religious authority figures in the twenty-first century denounce, or rather do not give authority to, these new translations of the Bible?

Example of an illustrated Bible. More information on this work can be found here.