Zondervan NIV Study Bible
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Author: ZondervanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-12
ISBN: 0310938961
Number of pages: 2368
Publisher: Zondervan
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Book Review: Compelling, Great Ending
Summary: 5 Stars
As a Christian now, I've read this book (hardcover and softcover versions, not Kindle or other digital device forms). I wondered a little about the beginning, with the whole Adam and Eve thing. I thought to myself, "If this book is going to be about two naked people running around a garden naming animals all day, I might be bored."
Then, wham! They ate some bad fruit, were kicked out, one of their kids killed the other. Later on, there was a big flood, a father (Abraham) almost kills his son when God tels him to (God tells Abe to stop at the last second).
There's this whole thing about David who starts off by killing a guy several times bigger than him with a tiny stone. He goes on to become king, and has (you know) with somebody else's wife and gets in huge trouble with God. David wrote some poems about it, mostly about how God meant business, and still forgave him.
The story picks up as far as easy to read narrative stuff, much of which is in the form of letters by different guys to churches and old friends. A guy named Jesus is born who, instead of a last name, uses a title to as a surname. Goes by Jesus Christ, which means, "Jesus, the Anointed One." Seems he is both God and a man, 100% of each. This whole part is cool, on account he can do whatever he needs to do.
One time, when in a jam, Jesus makes a few fish and a little bit of bread into a ton of it, feeding a massive crowd. All this is not the story, though. The real conflict is when Jesus has a run in with some people who feel put-off that he claims to be God. They believed in God, and all, but they were expecting someone flashier. Instead, they got an ordinary looking Joe, the son of a tradesman. Jesus would tell them he wasn't God, so these people killed him.
The whole section where they kill Jesus is pretty exciting, loaded with dramatic lines, as well as subtle comments from Jesus noone understands at first. One of his buddies gives him the kiss of death. He tells them, basically, that he's going to die, but that he'll rise from the dead. And he pulls it off. Freaks out his friends, of course, especially Thomas who sees him plain as day, but thinks he is a ghost.
After a month and a half or so, Jesus goes away, flying up into Heaven to do some work with his dad. Another guy, Paul, just a regular guy who actually used to torment people who believed Jesus, turns his life toward doing stuff for God. He eventually gets killed for it, but not until after he writes a lot of letters that have caused more controversy in this world than probably any other letter.
There's some other stories, but the last section, a collection of letters to various churches telling them to shape up, talks about what it is going to be like when Jesus returns from Heaven. Jesus, the ordinary Joe, will be coming back to rule the world and sometime in the process, bring everyone who follows him back to Heaven with him.
I could go on and on. It is a huge book, and the New International Version makes it all easy to understand (no high-falooting language). It is the version used in many Protestant churches. The study notes help connect the culture of 2,000 years ago (the New Testament), and 6,000 years ago (roughly the earliest era described in the Old Testament) with 2010. Use the maps and graphs to see how and where and when who lived and traveled.
There are other significant translations worthy of consideration (the NASB and ESV and others) and with those, leading study Bibles, but the NIV Study Bible claims a useful spot on any student of the Bible's desk.
I fully recommend this book.
Anthony Trendl
http://anthonytrendl.com
Summary of Zondervan NIV Study Bible
The Zondervan NIV Study Bible is the #1 bestselling study Bible in the bestselling NIV translation. And now it includes for 2008 over 20,000 fully revised and updated in-text study notes and a library of study resources at your fingertips. Since its first release in 1985, the Gold Medallion Award-Winning NIV Study Bible has become the treasured and trusted companion of millions of avid Bible users. For 2008, the NIV Study Bible's 20,000-plus study notes and other features have been thoroughly edited, revised and improved. Unmatched in any other Study Bible, these notes have been crafted to reflect the most current conservative Bible scholarship. Other study features place at your fingertips a treasury of instant commentary from today's top evangelical scholars. Icons highlight notes of special interest in the areas of character study, archaeology, and personal application. Simply put, you won't find study notes as complete, up-to-date, helpful, and easy to use anywhere else. Referred to daily by millions of pastors, students, church leaders, and other Bible readers around the world, the renowned Zondervan NIV Study Bible notes are the crown jewel of the world's bestselling study Bible. The over-20,000 notes are the handiwork of the same translation team that produced this Bible's text, the New International Version. The same exacting, conservative scholarship that brought you today's most read, most trusted Bible translation went into creating the most celebrated, widely used Bible study notes in existence. Like no other Bible, the Zondervan NIV Study Bible places an entire resource library for Bible study in your hands. The most read, most trusted translation now has the most up-to-date study system available anywhere. FEATURES: * Full text of the most read, most trusted New International Version. * Over 20,000 study notes, thoroughly revised and updated by a team of NIV translators. * Icons make important information easy to spot. * 900 Character Profile icons. * 425 Archaeology icons. * Almost 3,000 Personal Application icons. * Introductions and outlines provide valuable background information for each book of the Bible. * In-text maps, charts, diagrams, and illustrations visually clarify the stories in the Bible. * 16 pages of full-color maps plus timelines and presentation page. * Words of Christ in red. * NIV concordance plus subject and study notes indexes.Bibles Books
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