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Concordia's Complete Bible Handbook
Comprehensive Bible reference guide for students.
- GenresReligion
653 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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