Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tp0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Carl Price) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Bible versions Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 07:53:49 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu If a "study" bible is one which contains "helpful" notes and a general plan of reading and exegesis built in, I can't recommend it. (Not that you asked, but you might be interested.) Any bible which contains such canned material will constrain your or my reading of it more than we might think at first. It will in fact not be an AV or a NKJV but a "team-of-scholars-who-laced-a- bible-with-their-own-opiniions"V . I have an interlinear KJ/RV wide-margin and love it. (The marginal references to the Revised Version of 1888 are perhaps the best ever -- but I now barely use them in favor of my own _pencilled_ notes and a Young's Analytical Concordance. In fact I'd like to get rid of my Strong's but it was a gift and inscribed on the flyleaf, rats.) So what am I saying? If this is the Word of God you want as little between you and the words as possible: e.g., somebody else's built-in notes, an easy-to- read format, or narrow paperback margins preventing your own glossing. How can cost be an issue? You're going to read it and study in it every day for at least thirty years (until it wears out and you replace it). $60 for a wide-margin india-paper bible is nothing! Come on, it's the Word of God, right? Further discussion welcomed. TP