Bøker av Jonas Bendiksen

Photographs of contemporary Veles are intertwined with fragments from an archaeological discovery also called 'the Book of Veles' - a cryptic collection of 40 'ancient' wooden boards discovered in Russia in 1919, written in a proto-Slavic language.

Imagined as a sequel to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, The Last Testament features visual accounts and stories of seven men around the world who claim to be the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Building on biblical form and structure, chapters dedicated to each Jesus include excerpts of their scriptural testaments, laying out their theology and demands on mankind in their own words. Jonas Bendiksen takes at face value that each one is the true Messiah returned to Earth, to forge an account that is a work of apocalyptic journalism and compelling artistic imagination.