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Concordia's Complete Bible Handbook for Students
Who is this Bible Handbook for?
Anyone who wants to take an in-depth look at each book of the Bible and learn more about important people, significant places, customs and traditions, and life in Biblical times.
What does this Bible Handbook provide?
This handbook starts with an introduction to the Bible, looking at questions such
Who wrote the Bible?
How is the Bible organized?
What's up with all those translations?
Is the Bible reliable and trustworthy?
How can I get the most out of the Bible reading I do?
The book then presents a survey of all 66 books of the Bible and the time between the Old and New Testaments. Readers will explore and discover the who, what, when, where, why and how
The Books of Moses
The Books of History
The Books of Wisdom
The Books of the Prophets
The Time Between the Testaments
The Gospels and Acts
The Pauline Epistles
The General Epistles and Revelation
In addition to summaries of major topics of the Bible, the handbook also includes articles, charts, diagrams, genealogies, illustrations, maps, outlines, overviews and timelines that provide additional detail for personal, group or class study.
Anyone who wants to take an in-depth look at each book of the Bible and learn more about important people, significant places, customs and traditions, and life in Biblical times.
What does this Bible Handbook provide?
This handbook starts with an introduction to the Bible, looking at questions such
Who wrote the Bible?
How is the Bible organized?
What's up with all those translations?
Is the Bible reliable and trustworthy?
How can I get the most out of the Bible reading I do?
The book then presents a survey of all 66 books of the Bible and the time between the Old and New Testaments. Readers will explore and discover the who, what, when, where, why and how
The Books of Moses
The Books of History
The Books of Wisdom
The Books of the Prophets
The Time Between the Testaments
The Gospels and Acts
The Pauline Epistles
The General Epistles and Revelation
In addition to summaries of major topics of the Bible, the handbook also includes articles, charts, diagrams, genealogies, illustrations, maps, outlines, overviews and timelines that provide additional detail for personal, group or class study.
- GenresReligion
449 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2011
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October 31, 2019
This seems to have been written for an audience almost too young. Mature readers who would pick this up looking for a reference work can't connect with the simplistic writing tone, while those whom the writing is geared toward will never pick it up—because it's a gosh-darn heavy handbook.
Seriously, this thing has a dozen maps, diagrams of tabernacles and temples, timelines of massacres, murders, enslavements, and definitions of terms—sitting side-by-side with happy cartoons of dancing Jewish children or soldiers smiling as they play musical instruments. All this next to a banal writing that never seems to actually, substantively, connect with the history being displayed in glossy colors on the page. This book doesn't know who it wants its audience to be.
Surely the author doesn’t mean to sound demeaning. But there are a few too many exclamation points for my taste. I suppose it is “for students,” but my goodness—can this man sound any more juvenile while writing a theology book? At one point the author says that we now “live in the sunshine of God’s smile.” In all seriousness. Um, what now?
I must give credit to the graphics and design, but the actual manuscript inside this book is mediocre at best. It does a few things right: 1) It keeps Jesus as the focus of the Old Testament, which I applaud, and 2) It provides condense summaries of main themes for each book. Beyond that? Not much.
Seriously, this thing has a dozen maps, diagrams of tabernacles and temples, timelines of massacres, murders, enslavements, and definitions of terms—sitting side-by-side with happy cartoons of dancing Jewish children or soldiers smiling as they play musical instruments. All this next to a banal writing that never seems to actually, substantively, connect with the history being displayed in glossy colors on the page. This book doesn't know who it wants its audience to be.
Surely the author doesn’t mean to sound demeaning. But there are a few too many exclamation points for my taste. I suppose it is “for students,” but my goodness—can this man sound any more juvenile while writing a theology book? At one point the author says that we now “live in the sunshine of God’s smile.” In all seriousness. Um, what now?
I must give credit to the graphics and design, but the actual manuscript inside this book is mediocre at best. It does a few things right: 1) It keeps Jesus as the focus of the Old Testament, which I applaud, and 2) It provides condense summaries of main themes for each book. Beyond that? Not much.
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