NIV Books of the Bible Hardcover Zondervan 0025986400576 Books
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Return to the Bible as it was before chapters and verses.The Bible isn’t a single book. it'sa collection of many books that were written, preserved and gathered together so that they could be shared with new generations of readers. The Bible is an invitation to you to first view the world in a new way, and then to become an agent of the world’s renewal.The Books of the Bible, NIV helps you have a more meaningful encounter with the sacred writings and to read with more understanding, without centuries of added formatting, so that you can take your place more readily within this story of new creation.“There is no Bible more suited to reading from beginning to end.”
— Scot McKnight, author of Jesus CreedFeatures
• Chapter and verse numbers have been removed from the text.
• The books are presented instead according to the internal divisions that we believe their authors have indicated.
• A single-column setting is used to present the text more clearly and naturally, and to avoid disrupting the intended line breaks in poetry.
• Footnotes, section headings and any other additional materials have been removed from the pages of the sacred text.
• Individual books that later tradition divided into two or more parts are put back together again.
• The books are arranged in an order that helps you understand the Bible more completely. Point size is 10.2.
NIV Books of the Bible Hardcover Zondervan 0025986400576 Books
I have always been a fan of Bibles that are laid out for the reader, rather than the dipper. It's taken more than a generation to get here from the radical single column layout of the New English Bible in the 1960s, but the reader's Bible is now here in full form, stripped of 16th century chapter and versification, which frequently distorts the sense of the Biblical documents as literature.A great deal of scholarship lies behind the decisions taken regarding layout and sequencing, but the volume wears its learning lightly - in fact, I would like to have seen more detailed introductions, but this would have complicated book production.
A few words about the sequencing: the OT ("First Testament" here) is sequenced generally according to the Hebrew Bible, but with the books of history moved from the Prophets (Nevi'im) to follow on immediately from Genesis-Deuteronomy (Torah) in a section the editors have called Covenant History. Since scholarship now considers Genesis-2Kings to be essentially one continuous narrative of salvation history from creation until the exile to Babylon, this is an eminently justifiable decision. It also greatly aids orientation within the OT.
The Prophetic literature is sequenced by date of writing, so Jonah appears first in this schema. What might have been useful is for the introduction to the Prophets to provide information on how the writings of individual prophets are related to the Covenant History narrative.
The Writings represent a rearrangement of the Kethuvim, into roughly chronological order: here 1 and 2 Chronicles precede Ezra-Nehemiah and the four books are treated as a single historical unit. Daniel ends this section, being the latest of the canonical writings.
In the NT, the editors have been even bolder than with their sequencing of the OT. Luke-Acts is treated, quite properly, as a single work in two volumes, and appears first. The other gospels are grouped together with related epistolary works: Luke-Acts is grouped with the Pauline corpus (in chronological sequence), Matthew with other texts to Jewish believers (James and Hebrews), Mark is grouped with the letters of Peter and Jude, John is grouped with the Johannine epistles, Revelation stands naturally alone at the end of the canon.
Within each book, the editors have chosen a form of layout that does justice to the type of literature being presented. Poetry in the OT is presented as poetry, even where this is quoted by the NT-something that one of the Cambridge NIV Bibles from the 1990s also followed. In each work, the text is divided by sense unit, rather than by chapter divisions, which greatly aids intelligent reading.
All in all, this is an excellent approach to making the Bible intelligible. Freeing the reader from artificial (and indeed arbitrary) structures imposed on the text by chapter and verse divisions will assist anyone in gaining a superior level of understanding, and encourage them to read more at a sitting than traditional presentations of the text ever could.
Now to my only negative - production. As many other reviewers have noted, the paper is very thin. There is bleed through, but this is not as serious as I would have thought, given the paper stock. The paper, though, just feels too fragile and easily wrinkles from handling. I would like a better grade of Bible paper stock and a leather cover. Maybe this will come in time. I sense that Zondervan is testing the waters with this approach and is waiting to see how sales perform in the marketplace before committing to a more expensive production.
People will have their own attitudes to the NIV. I'm not a naysayer, although I'm a King James man at heart and, as for underlying Greek, I'm a proponent of the Byzantine text type. What the editors have achieved here is far more significant than another means of presenting the NIV. They have established a way of presenting the Biblical material in a way that is both informed by scholarship and made so much more digestible than traditional Bibles that are as fun to read as a lexicon. The Bible is a compendium of diverse literature and should be read as such. This volume makes that mandate a natural consequence. If other Bible publishers think seriously about making the Bible a book to be read, rather than dipped into (or merely carried around), they will take many of the editorial decisions into account in designing new layouts and typography in the years to come.
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NIV Books of the Bible Hardcover Zondervan 0025986400576 Books Reviews
PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THE TRADITIONAL NOTATED BIBLES IF YOU WANT TO READ THE BIBLE FOR PURE PLEASURE AND DELIGHT.
I have experience with Bibles---I completed seminary in May of 2013 and graduated with honors with a Masters of Divinity. This doesn't make me "all that" but you should know to whom you are speaking and whether they might actually know what they are talking about !!
All the verses, all the notations, all the pericopes, all the chopping up of the books and paragraphs and all the extraneous stuff and artificial divisions have been completely removed from this Bible leaving the Word of God to shine forth for you to see as God gave it to His servants. It is AMAZING !!! It reads like the most fascinating story you have (n)ever read !! Forget flogging yourself to "read my Bible verse today", get it done and go back to life as usual.
This Bible has put the First Testament back into the way Jews would have heard it orally. And the arrangement of the First Testament is so logical and flows so beautifully that it is impossible to put it down. The prophets who were contemporaries of each other are actually grouped together so you can clearly see what what happening historically. AND they are grouped roughly in chronological order.
The New Testament starts off with Luke-Acts as one book, as it always should have been. It puts all the writings of Paul roughly into the order in which Paul wrote them! You can SEE clearly how Paul grew in his understanding of the things of God!! For example, Paul had already been through trials with his flock from Thessalonica, Corinth and Galatia BEFORE he wrote Romans.
When you see the Word in this way, revelation just flows.
The introductions to the books are simply , concise and profound beyond any I have seen.
I would NEVER give a new Christian any other Bible than this one to start with.
God bless you all !!
Thought this was an interesting take on the Bible, but not anything Earth-shattering. Would probably have a bit more impact on readers who are not as well-versed in the Bible, and/or who have not read the New Testament all the way through before. There were a few spots where I read things that I didn't immediately recall, but this wasn't the case most of the time. It was a good way to hold a weekly study with other believers, though.
Our entire church is going through this version of the New Testament together in small groups with accompanying sermons on the weekends. Over 3,500 copies sold just at our church so far. I LOVE reading this "version" of God's word. Reads really easily and gives a sweeping overview of every bit of the New Testament. There are so many verses and teachings I've never heard from the pulpit.
I've read through the entire bible many times, but this is a very different experience. More of a narrative than a chopped up text book. It flows easily. I can imagine receiving these (each book) as an actual letter. Which is, of course, what so much of the New Testament is. While I believe there is still a need for bibles that have chapters and verses attached for reference purposes, this is a great option for a different understanding of His word.
I can't recommend this book enough. Get copies for those family members who are not followers of Christ...yet.
I have always been a fan of Bibles that are laid out for the reader, rather than the dipper. It's taken more than a generation to get here from the radical single column layout of the New English Bible in the 1960s, but the reader's Bible is now here in full form, stripped of 16th century chapter and versification, which frequently distorts the sense of the Biblical documents as literature.
A great deal of scholarship lies behind the decisions taken regarding layout and sequencing, but the volume wears its learning lightly - in fact, I would like to have seen more detailed introductions, but this would have complicated book production.
A few words about the sequencing the OT ("First Testament" here) is sequenced generally according to the Hebrew Bible, but with the books of history moved from the Prophets (Nevi'im) to follow on immediately from Genesis-Deuteronomy (Torah) in a section the editors have called Covenant History. Since scholarship now considers Genesis-2Kings to be essentially one continuous narrative of salvation history from creation until the exile to Babylon, this is an eminently justifiable decision. It also greatly aids orientation within the OT.
The Prophetic literature is sequenced by date of writing, so Jonah appears first in this schema. What might have been useful is for the introduction to the Prophets to provide information on how the writings of individual prophets are related to the Covenant History narrative.
The Writings represent a rearrangement of the Kethuvim, into roughly chronological order here 1 and 2 Chronicles precede Ezra-Nehemiah and the four books are treated as a single historical unit. Daniel ends this section, being the latest of the canonical writings.
In the NT, the editors have been even bolder than with their sequencing of the OT. Luke-Acts is treated, quite properly, as a single work in two volumes, and appears first. The other gospels are grouped together with related epistolary works Luke-Acts is grouped with the Pauline corpus (in chronological sequence), Matthew with other texts to Jewish believers (James and Hebrews), Mark is grouped with the letters of Peter and Jude, John is grouped with the Johannine epistles, Revelation stands naturally alone at the end of the canon.
Within each book, the editors have chosen a form of layout that does justice to the type of literature being presented. Poetry in the OT is presented as poetry, even where this is quoted by the NT-something that one of the Cambridge NIV Bibles from the 1990s also followed. In each work, the text is divided by sense unit, rather than by chapter divisions, which greatly aids intelligent reading.
All in all, this is an excellent approach to making the Bible intelligible. Freeing the reader from artificial (and indeed arbitrary) structures imposed on the text by chapter and verse divisions will assist anyone in gaining a superior level of understanding, and encourage them to read more at a sitting than traditional presentations of the text ever could.
Now to my only negative - production. As many other reviewers have noted, the paper is very thin. There is bleed through, but this is not as serious as I would have thought, given the paper stock. The paper, though, just feels too fragile and easily wrinkles from handling. I would like a better grade of Bible paper stock and a leather cover. Maybe this will come in time. I sense that Zondervan is testing the waters with this approach and is waiting to see how sales perform in the marketplace before committing to a more expensive production.
People will have their own attitudes to the NIV. I'm not a naysayer, although I'm a King James man at heart and, as for underlying Greek, I'm a proponent of the Byzantine text type. What the editors have achieved here is far more significant than another means of presenting the NIV. They have established a way of presenting the Biblical material in a way that is both informed by scholarship and made so much more digestible than traditional Bibles that are as fun to read as a lexicon. The Bible is a compendium of diverse literature and should be read as such. This volume makes that mandate a natural consequence. If other Bible publishers think seriously about making the Bible a book to be read, rather than dipped into (or merely carried around), they will take many of the editorial decisions into account in designing new layouts and typography in the years to come.
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