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A review by labtracks
Life Application Study Bible: NIV by Anonymous
3.0
I read the entire thing... including footnotes. Took me almost an entire year.
I'm not going to comment on the book itself. It's "The Book" and to most people those capital letters are justified, to the majority of the world they are not.
I also will not expound on my religious beliefs since they are immaterial to this commentary.
I will only comment on this particular version of this book. I was gifted this book by a very religious friend about 15 years ago. It has sat on my shelf since then. But I am an avid reader and this was a book I had never read. So after previosuly abandoning a reading attempt I started anew with a new approach.
My cover-to-cover reading didn't cut it. This time I did a "read in a year" the chronological method. This was somewhat cover-to-cover but you did jump between books and sections of books which was interesting to see how different books covered the same events. (Found this reading schedule by google search).
The commentary in this book is really why one would buy this version... to "study" the bible. I realize that putting together a publication like this must be an extremely large effort invovling many individuals. Which shows in the footnotes... some books had excellent, helpful footnotes that were more matter of fact and interpretive. Other books had footnotes that were less interrepretive but instead more "preachy" with a feeling of instilling guilt as a motivator. Clearly I favored one technique over the other... so much so that during the "preachy" footnote books I almost dreaded reading them. I will note here that I read this with more of an educational view instead of a religious view, so perhaps those reading with a different motivation will find the opposite and wish the informative footnotes were more guilt ridden...
Overall I did think this was well put together resulting in the version of this book that the multitudes of people working on it initially intended.
I'm not going to comment on the book itself. It's "The Book" and to most people those capital letters are justified, to the majority of the world they are not.
I also will not expound on my religious beliefs since they are immaterial to this commentary.
I will only comment on this particular version of this book. I was gifted this book by a very religious friend about 15 years ago. It has sat on my shelf since then. But I am an avid reader and this was a book I had never read. So after previosuly abandoning a reading attempt I started anew with a new approach.
My cover-to-cover reading didn't cut it. This time I did a "read in a year" the chronological method. This was somewhat cover-to-cover but you did jump between books and sections of books which was interesting to see how different books covered the same events. (Found this reading schedule by google search).
The commentary in this book is really why one would buy this version... to "study" the bible. I realize that putting together a publication like this must be an extremely large effort invovling many individuals. Which shows in the footnotes... some books had excellent, helpful footnotes that were more matter of fact and interpretive. Other books had footnotes that were less interrepretive but instead more "preachy" with a feeling of instilling guilt as a motivator. Clearly I favored one technique over the other... so much so that during the "preachy" footnote books I almost dreaded reading them. I will note here that I read this with more of an educational view instead of a religious view, so perhaps those reading with a different motivation will find the opposite and wish the informative footnotes were more guilt ridden...
Overall I did think this was well put together resulting in the version of this book that the multitudes of people working on it initially intended.