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|  | Creator: Zondervan Publishing
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 6314
Media: Leather Bound
Edition: Gift
Pages: 736
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0310938619
Dewey Decimal Number: 220
EAN: 9780310938613
ASIN: 0310938619
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Showing reviews 26-30 of 38
 Beautiful Bible January 27, 2010
Darice Baird
I bought this Bible to take to my seminary classes with me. It arrived a few days ago, & I am very pleased with it. The cover & dedication page are lovely. It also has a pale pink ribbon to mark your place. The font is small, but not unreadable. The paper is not thin or fragile like onion skin, instead it is more like thin office paper. This makes it much easier to write notes in the Bible & to turn the pages without damaging them. In the back of the Bible there is a chart of weights & measures & the following section of "Bible Study Helps": Overview of the Bible, Teachings of Jesus, Ministry of Jesus, Miracles of Jesus, Parables of Jesus, Life in New Testament Times, & Dictionary. Although there are footnotes throughout the Bible, there are no cross-references or maps. I can not comment on how this Bible will hold up to use, as I have not had it long. It looks great, feels great (the brown leather is soft), is a great value for the price & would make a great gift.
Sooooooooooooooo Good Seller A++++++++++++++++++ September 26, 2009
S. Choi (LA, California USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was gift for my son,
Received on time
Thank you so much ultra fast shipping
The NIV is not a Bible just for dummies October 31, 2008
Lucifer (www.bobshakespeare.com)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
The New International Version is the most readable English translation ever produced. And if that doesn't make it a "Good Book," then I don't know what does!
Granted, I still prefer to read God's Word in the original tongues, not in a modern translation. (I've got nothing against the watered-down English versions sold today in Bible bookstores, but the ancient biblical scrolls are just a whole lot funnier.)
Most people these days cannot do that: they cannot read Scripture as it was first intended by the Author. Not to worry: Bible translators have saved you a headache and you can thank God for them. Many of the holy Ghost's original sentences are so ungrammatical and awkwardly constructed, and others so unintelligible, that the translators for Zondervan Corp and these other big Bible companies have graciously re-written the text so as to enhance Scripture's appeal to the 21st-century reader. And in the N.I.V. more than in any other, those scholars have done a truly wonderful job of tidying up.
If you prefer an English Bible that is halfway faithful to the original, then read the Authorised Version, better known in America as "the King James Version." The KJV/Authorised Version also has the most authentic prose style, with thee and thou and hath and dost and verily, which is how God actually talks, albeit in Hebrew. ([...]
But if it's a highly readable New Age paraphrase of the Bible you want, and if you cannot decide between the eighteen leading options in your local bookstore [..], then allow me to recommend Zondervan's "New International Version" (NIV). Here, at last, is an English-language Bible in which all obscenities and difficult words have been euphemised; God's curses, tempered, and His personality, softened; all theological conundrums, solved; all contradictions, removed; and all the howlers, corrected - which is also why the NIV is ideal for the younger generation, grades five and below.
Here's another thing you will love about Zondervan's New International Version: it is reader-friendly. The NIV makes the Lord sound like an affable American football coach, but with His bad words deleted, such as "piss" (Hebrew shathan) which is a word that God, in the Authorised Version, uses quite a bit (but only when He is angry, e.g., 1 Sam. 25:22, 1 Sam. 25:34, 1 Kings 14:10, 16:11, 21:21, 2 Kings 9:8).
And how's this for a major improvement? Almost every place that the word "Hell" appears in the Authorised Version, the NIV substitutes "the grave" or "the realm of the dead." (Where would you rather spend eternity - in "Hell," or in "the realm of the dead"?)
Then, too, in the NIV, every instance of the word, "Ghost" has been eliminated, and not just the holy one. ("Why should we scare people?" That's Zondervan's policy. "We're marketing Christ the King, not Stephen King! And if you can't tell the difference between those two, well then! - Don't blame us, but you can expect a warm welcome, someday, when you die and your aura gets sent forever to the realm of the dead!")
--L
 Great little Bible; great price! January 14, 2008
N. L. Roberts (Ohio)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is exactly how it is described. A great-looking gift bible at a great value. The cover is really nice and just like it looks online. The only reason it didn't rate 5 stars is because the print in the Bible is pretty small...due to the smaller size of the Bible itself.
I would definitely recommend this as a gift Bible to others.
Love it! January 20, 2009
L. Scharp
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love it. Cute and handy size and has made me want to read the bible again!
The text is PRETTY small though. I'm young so it'll do, but I imagine after age 35 or 40 this would not be a good choice b/c of that.
Note: the page edges are silver, which I found to be a strange color combination, but it's still a very cute bible.
Also, the pages are not as thin as some say. My pages are much closer to regular page thickness than the thin pages of many bibles.
And for the low price i'm VERY pleased!
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