Study Bible-NIV-Personal Size

By: Barker, Kenneth L.

Book Overview

NIV Study Bible This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310923077
• ISBN13: 9780310923077
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 2240 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

My new Bible

I'm enjoyimg this version very much. It is understandable.

Don't trust the measurements given.

Measurements are wrong. (Was not 11.1".) Doesn't look like I thought it would. Can't make it work for what I wanted. NOT what I'm looking for. Straight to donate box.

A great study Bible!

I own and read Bibles of several different versions, such as the New Living Translation, New Century Version and the King James and New King James versions. But the New International Version has been my personal favorite for nearly twenty years. The NIV Bible is one of, if not, the easiest translation to understand, and I believe it is perhaps the best study Bible available today. This Zondervan NIV Study Bible has some great study helps, including a table of biblical weights and measures, an index to subjects covered in the Bible, lots of color maps with an index to those and, of course, a concordance. Also included are timelines following the chronologies of Old and New Testament events. This is a great study Bible which I would gladly recommend to any Christian, or to any non-Christian seeking answers to his/her questions.

An excellent choice...

The NIV Study Bible is of outstanding value for providing readers a greatly enhanced understanding of The Bible. 1. GENERAL EVALUATION: There are many Study Bibles on the market. Including the NIV Study Bible [Zondervan Press], I own and use three. While my two other versions, one is the older RSV and the other the newer NRSV, give some information to explain the more difficult to understand passages and add commentaries, none go into the depth that the NIV does. The commentaries and explanations in the NIV Study Bible are, to say the least, profuse. Yet, not overwhelming in long elucidations that tend to make you forget what you just read. Rather, the commentaries are brief, to the point and very well develop understanding. The commentaries are not biased toward any single religious canon. They are simply information. Commentaries are cross-referenced, thus allowing the reader to gain further insight from related passages. 2. FORMAT: The page format is exceptionally well planned and implemented. The design is the traditional two-column format with references in a column between the texts. The commentaries are located at the bottom of the page to which they refer. The type font is large enough to easily read and is crisp. Icons are used to quickly identify to what the commentary refers. These icons are: Character Profile, Archeology and Personal Application. Maps relating to the particular text are on the same page as are diagrams. The four-color maps, located at the back of the book, are excellent. There are also time lines to assist the reader in grasping the time frames.3. SUGGETSIONS: The following comments/suggestions may only apply to those who embark on an in depth study of the Bible. Since The New Testament documents were originally in Greek, a wise choice of a companion Bible to further augment the NIV Study Bible would be the NSRV-NIV Interlinear Greek and English Bible. The NRSV and the NIV texts are on either side of the Greek text in three columns. Under the Greek, is a word for word translation. Greek of New Testament times was a rich, scholarly language and some words, like English, had varying meanings and implications. A Greek Lexicon would be helpful to understand those shades of meaning.4. CONCLUSION: No matter for what reason(s) any person cares to study The Bible, the NIV Study Bible, in my opinion, is the most readable and understandable on today's market. For those of you who may wonder about my qualifications to comment on this Bible, my minor was theology. My studies included Greek and Hebrew; I base my opinions on those studies and having read many-many works on the Bible, the culture of the times and recent archeological finds.