NIV Study Bible
Ryrie
Scoifield
MacArthurs
Reformation
Nelson's KJV
or what ever else ?
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PatRocco |
What Study Bible notes do you think are the best ? |
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Life App.
NIV Study Bible Ryrie Scoifield MacArthurs Reformation Nelson's KJV or what ever else ? |
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Exodus Six Verse Three |
Re: What Study Bible notes do you think are the best ? | ||
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I own four KJV Study Bibles:
1. The Criswell Study Bible-----------------1979 2. Liberty Bible Commentary ---------------1983 3. Zondervan---The Full Life Study Bible ----1992 4. Zondervan--- KJV Study Bible------------2002 The first thing I notice about these four KJV Study Bibles, is that they all agree with modern scholarship that teaches that God's name is "Yahweh". Exodus |
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sdonahue |
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Most of them are pretty good, IMHO.
The Scofield Study Bible III (KJV; NKJV, NAS[Fall '05];NIV) have greatly augmented the Scofield notes and are very helpful. The Zondervan Study Bible Triplets(NIV, NAS, KJV) are very helpful. KJV Study Bible has excellent notes(the binding is garbage) Reformation Study Bible ESV; NKJV. good |
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Aleph Nought |
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NIV Study Bible has the best set of notes I've ever seen.
The Life App. is a very close second. |
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Barry Ruckilow |
the best ? Scofield | ||
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OLD Scofield
Also, get a copy of Salient Verses, and Ruckman's Bible References. Ruckman Pen & ink into you margins the notes "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC. |
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gconan |
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wildboar99 |
Reformation Study Bible | ||
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I find Study Bibles less and less helpful. The beginning Bible student too often uses the notes too often and they can easily confuse the interpretation at the bottom of the page with the actual Biblical text. Scofield has done this to many people. Prior to Scofield there weren't hardly any Study Bibles at all. There were the Geneva notes but they were pretty brief. It was through Scofield's study Bible that dispensationalism really became popular--a teaching unheard of throughout most of church history.
Study Bibles also do not have enough information to help the advanced Bible student and answer the more difficult questions. That being said, if I had to choose I would recommend the NKJV New Geneva Study Bible/Reformation Study Bible. Unfortunately it is out of print but available in the ESV. There is also a Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible in the NIV. The notes are good but I don't like the translation and there is a KJV Matthew Henry Study Bible. I think it is better to get a good one-volume commentary to use with your Bible rather than within it. Matthew Henry is usually pretty good. Multi-volume sets are even more helpful. Keil and Delitzch on the Old Testament are excellent. The Hendriksen/Kistemaker New Testament set is also very good. Calvin's Commentary is also very helpful as is Gill's. |
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Aleph Nought |
NIV Study Bible | ||
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NKJV Study Bible
Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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I've got dozens and dozens of different study bibles, but one is by far my favorite when it comes to the notes and articles - THE FULL LIFE STUDY BIBLE. A
Pentecostal study bible written from a conservative perspective. Not like the Dake or the Spirit Filled Bible that are both filled with lots of looser,
Charismatic material.
I've always enjoyed the NASB Open Bible too.
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"Do not challenge supernatural unless armed with sword of truth" - Charlie Chan at Treasure Island |
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I'll take the odd stance and admit that I am partial to the RSV based Oxford Annotated.
"The one great fallacy of fundamentalism is that we actually believe that while we are confessing the sins of others that the Lord will not look as
intently on our own."
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I liked the OAB and the older (early NRSV) NOAB. The new one's not bad, but it's not as good as the old one.
"Things don't happen together by coincidence, without the hand of God guiding them. Like, say, your ex-girlfriend hunting you down for a date the
minute you give up on love, with an eye on the altar."
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MKO wrote: "I liked the OAB and the older (early NRSV) NOAB. The new one's not bad, but it's not as good as the old one"
I couldn't agree with you more. I've read parts of the NRSV, but just can't bring myself to read it from cover to cover, due to the gender bias - which, may not be as bad as I suspect. If it wasn't for Metzger, I wouldn't even own a copy!
"The one great fallacy of fundamentalism is that we actually believe that while we are confessing the sins of others that the Lord will not look as
intently on our own."
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The gender neutralization is the NRSV's biggest weakness. I suppose it would be more readily tolerated if in certain places the footnotes were
reintegrated.
-My own translations use masculine terms when an exclusively masculine audience is assumed. I believe the Revised English Bible works this way as well.
"Things don't happen together by coincidence, without the hand of God guiding them. Like, say, your ex-girlfriend hunting you down for a date the
minute you give up on love, with an eye on the altar."
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The NIV Study Bible (and its various reformulations into other editions) still has the best all-round study notes. I'd put my New Geneva a close second.
Take care,
Scott Gutless and Spineless Person #3 Whiny Crybaby Moderator, Bible Versions Discussion Board -- Scott A. McClare, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mcclare@ncf.ca * ICQ #24034503 * AIM RansomOttawa ![]() Stepping Right Up to the KJV-only Sideshow since 2001 |
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I have way, way too many study Bibles.
Concordia Self-Study Bible (NIV) Zondervan NASB Study Bible Oxford Study Bible (REB) Zondervan Quest Study Bible (NIV) Life Application Bible (NRSV) ESV Study Bible (impulse purchase on New Year's Eve; very informative but should be more upfront about its Calvinist/Zwinglian/Fundamentalist slant) Now there are two Lutheran study Bibles being released this year (one is already out). I realise how helpful study Bibles can be, but sometimes it seems like overkill. There are times when I feel like just pulling my plain-vanilla-no-study-notes NRSV pew Bible or NRSV Common Bible (despite my quibbles with the NRSV going overboard with the "gender neutrality" bit, the Common Bible is really good and has the most complete Apocrypha I can think of) and reading that. Sometimes I spend more time reading the study notes than the actual text. |
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There's an REB study Bible? O_o
"Things don't happen together by coincidence, without the hand of God guiding them. Like, say, your ex-girlfriend hunting you down for a date the
minute you give up on love, with an eye on the altar."
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I bought a REB once as someone (in print) highly recomended it. It was no good in my opinion. Of course I traded it in at the used bookstore.
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The REB isn't for all tastes. Remember that it's British, and unless you're familiar with the Queen's English, it's going to seem odd. It
sells quite well in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the UK. I think a lot of Anglicans in the Commonwealth use it.
I really like it. The REB Study Bible I have is The Oxford Study Bible; Revised English Bible With The Apocrypha I got it on the cheap on EBAY about a year ago, but it's still in print. |
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F4Phantom wrote: 77: The REB manages to avoid some of the more quirky British turns of phrases that the NEB is guilty of - much to my chagrin. Still, it's a very good translation. Nice to know that Oxford based a study Bible off of this translation.
"Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one of a good
one ... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principle good one, not justly to be expected against; that hath been our endeavor, that
our mark."
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