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Summary: Worst Book Ever
Review: First of all I would like to say that the New American Standard Bible is an excellent literal translation. It utilizes the Greek critical text, which is the most widely accepted Greek Biblical text used today. The NASB really is the monument of modern scholarship. This translation, written by the Lockman Foundation, has been a blessing to evangelism accross the USA. Sometimes it can be a little difficult to comprehend since it is a very literal translation but if you take your time you can really catch on to the meaning of the text that God wanted you to grasp. With literal translations the author's opinion of the meaning of the text is usually not put forth into the text. This paraphrasing can happen when your translation is more dynamic. The format of this specific book is pretty basic. You have a table of contence, a letter from the translators explaning their translating methods, abbriviations, and the Greek text base. As a bonus, you get a few black and white maps and a small word concordance in the back (a concordance is a list of words and where they occur in the text). Don't think this concordance is anything remotely close to the size and the completeness of Strong's Concordance, but this one can probably find for you the word that you are looking for. The letter size is a little on the small side and the pages tend to be filled to the brim with text which can be annoying but it still can be used for quick references. My favorite size for Bibles happens to be Pew size. You can travel with them and even stick them in your pocket (if you have large ones). If you are looking for basic bible that is a good translation at a great price and a great size then this is the Bible for you!
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Summary: NASB: A glance
Review: First of all I would like to say that the New American Standard Bible is an excellent literal translation. It utilizes the Greek critical text, which is the most widely accepted Greek Biblical text used today. The NASB really is the monument of modern scholarship. This translation, written by the Lockman Foundation, has been a blessing to evangelism accross the USA. Sometimes it can be a little difficult to comprehend since it is a very literal translation but if you take your time you can really catch on to the meaning of the text that God wanted you to grasp. With literal translations the author's opinion of the meaning of the text is usually not put forth into the text. This paraphrasing can happen when your translation is more dynamic. The format of this specific book is pretty basic. You have a table of contence, a letter from the translators explaning their translating methods, abbriviations, and the Greek text base. As a bonus, you get a few black and white maps and a small word concordance in the back (a concordance is a list of words and where they occur in the text). Don't think this concordance is anything remotely close to the size and the completeness of Strong's Concordance, but this one can probably find for you the word that you are looking for. The letter size is a little on the small side and the pages tend to be filled to the brim with text which can be annoying but it still can be used for quick references. My favorite size for Bibles happens to be Pew size. You can travel with them and even stick them in your pocket (if you have large ones). If you are looking for basic bible that is a good translation at a great price and a great size then this is the Bible for you!
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Summary: Outsantding Value of the NASB Reader's/Pew Bible
Review: For years, the NASB Bible has been recognized as the most literally accurate Bible translation in the English language. Yet, a criticism has sometimes been a perceived stilted and wooden phraseology in some passages. Well, not any more! The NASB Updated Edition has now enabled the NASB to claim to be the most accurate translation as well as being crystal clear in readability. It is now the equal of the NIV in understandability while surpassing the NIV in literal accuracy. In my opinion, it is the best translation in the English language. In addition to its clearness and accuracy, the NASB Update, available in Reader's Pew/Hardcover and Gift and Award Editions is one of the best Bible values available today. While being slim and compact, the text is crystal clear and easily readable; critical translation notes are at the bottom of the page, and although there are no cross references, there is a full concordance and 10 pages of maps! This is a complete Bible and an outsta! nding value for the dollar. Both hardback and imitation leather styles are attractive and durable, and the hardback edition is especially handsome. I highly recommend this compact NASB Updated Edition, both for its attractiveness, and quality. Christian N. Temple M. Div. Student, Liberty University
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Summary: Worst Book Ever
Review: This book, "The Bible" is a highly overated book. Not only is it unbelievable, but it doesn't even have steady plot. It shifts main characters, not allowing you to see the full development of each character. When it finally does settle on a main character, (some fellow named "Jesus" - i think he's spanish) the authors cannot fully develop him. He goes from 13 to 30 in a matter of seconds, now that's just bad storytelling. Overall, there are too many characters to keep track of, too many stories that have nothing to do with each other, and very unrealistic events happen just as normal things. I don't know about you, but I've never see a bush on fire that wasn't burning. All the Jesus guy did was change water into wine, and escape out of cave, the latter of which was is completely unoriginal because Houdini did it first. In conclusion, I never seen a piece of fiction so terribly written as this. This is book is so bad, the authors are too ashamed to reveal their last names, they are Mark, Luke, John and I forget the last one. Anyway, stay away from this book, it tries to control your mind. Instead go listen to a Hillary Duff C.D., or better yet, go see a Carrot Top movie. Both of which are more enlightening than this piece of crap.
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