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| ASIN | 0061042579 |
| EAN | 9780061042577 |
| Manufacturer | HarperTorch |
| Customer Rating | 3.5 |
| Customerreview | The NIV is not a Bible just for dummies  The New International Version is the most readable English translation ever produced. And if that doesn't make it a "Good Book," then I don't know what does! Granted, I still prefer to read God's Word in the original tongues, not in a modern translation. (I've got nothing against the watered-down English versions sold today in Bible bookstores, but the ancient biblical scrolls are just a whole lot funnier.) Most people these days cannot do that: they cannot read Scripture as it was first intended by the Author. Not to worry: Bible translators have saved you a headache and you can thank God for them. Many of the holy Ghost's original sentences are so ungrammatical and awkwardly constructed, and others so unintelligible, that the translators for Zondervan Corp and these other big Bible companies have graciously re-written the text so as to enhance Scripture's appeal to the 21st-century reader. And in the N.I.V. more than in any other, those scholars have done a truly wonderful job of tidying up. If you prefer an English Bible that is halfway faithful to the original, then read the Authorised Version, better known in America as "the King James Version." The KJV/Authorised Version also has the most authentic prose style, with thee and thou and hath and dost and verily, which is how God actually talks, albeit in Hebrew. ([...] But if it's a highly readable New Age paraphrase of the Bible you want, and if you cannot decide between the eighteen leading options in your local bookstore or on BibleGateway.com, then allow me to recommend Zondervan's "New International Version" (NIV). Here, at last, is an English-language Bible in which all obscenities and difficult words have been euphemised; God's curses, tempered, and His personality, softened; all theological conundrums, solved; all contradictions, removed; and all the howlers, corrected - which is also why the NIV is ideal for the younger generation, grades five and below. Here's another thing you will love about Zondervan's New International Version: it is reader-friendly. The NIV makes the Lord sound like an affable American football coach, but with His bad words deleted, such as "piss" (Hebrew shathan) which is a word that God, in the Authorised Version, uses quite a bit (but only when He is angry, e.g., 1 Sam. 25:22, 1 Sam. 25:34, 1 Kings 14:10, 16:11, 21:21, 2 Kings 9:8). And how's this for a major improvement? Almost every place that the word "Hell" appears in the Authorised Version, the NIV substitutes "the grave" or "the realm of the dead." (Where would you rather spend eternity - in "Hell," or in "the realm of the dead"?) Then, too, in the NIV, every instance of the word, "Ghost" has been eliminated, and not just the holy one. ("Why should we scare people?" That's Zondervan's policy. "We're marketing Christ the King, not Stephen King! And if you can't tell the difference between those two, well then! - Don't blame us, but you can expect a warm welcome, someday, when you die and your aura gets sent forever to the realm of the dead!") --L Rather Incredulous  I hate to say it, but I was rather disappointed with the storyline of this book. The transitions are awkward and the story, while fantastic, was not enjoyable. I usually like science fiction, but this one had too much old English and not enough scantily clad martians. A lot of hype has been coming out about this book,and has even stemmed many a debate in Washington, D.C. I understand that politicians tend to enjoy this book, but I am brave enough to stand up and state that this book is not that great. The action scenes were not very eventful - more graphic details should have been used, and the lack of adjectives was a prominent flaw. The Bible had ridiculously high standards for its readers. Also, the author should know better than to use the second person - only amatures make such a mistake. All in all, this book was poorly written and not well researched. Don't read it. Revelations  Almost all of the book of Revelations came from someone who had major hallucinations or someone who wanted to mess up what Jesus really meant. I prefer the Old Testmanent and the Gospels rather than what the apostle Peter has to say and the Book of Revelations (at least they make more sense). I don't even read the Bible anymore because I believe much of it is misinterpreted by the authors and they were not really "divinely inspired" from God. Basically another boring Amazon book and very expensive. Just what we ordered We were interested in an inexpensive paperback NIV Bible to do our studies in, and this fit the 'bill' perfectly, so to speak. It's small enough to tuck into our bag of resources. Need a magnifying glass I should have known at the price that this would be a really cheap version. The print is so small you need a magnifying glass to read it. If the description had included that caveat, I would have opted for the more expensive edition. Just didn't think about it ahead of time. |
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