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Using material from Philip Yancey and Brenda Quinn's book, Meet the Bible, the NIV Student Bible takes you on a fascinating and enriching year-long tour of the entire Bible---its characters, places, times, stories, and meaning. Now available in two stylish Italian Duo-Tone bindings, the Student Bible's proven, commonsense approach to studying the Scriptures will help you overcome common obstacles to reading and understanding the Bible. Edited by award-winning authors Philip Yancey and Tim Stafford, this Bible enables you to understand what you read, find the topics you're looking for, and make real progress in your studies.With carefully researched features and the most up-to-date study system available anywhere, new discoveries await you every day. The NIV Student Bible is the perfect choice for anyone who wants to be a 'student' of the Bible, and it is highly recommended for homeschool use. ... Read more

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For anyone... christian or not
This bible is a good place for anyone in the world to start learning about the christian religeon.

For christians, its absolutely an excellent resource. Aside from being an easy to read New International Version of the bible, it includes advice on how to deal with day to day events, excellent interpretations of certain passages, and helpful ways of getting you through reading the entire bible, or even certain books of it, without feeling bogged down.

For non-christians, who are simply interested in learning more about christianity, or maybe just the old testament (the history of Judaism, and the beginning of christianity, through prophets), this bible gives you excellent background information. The bible also features maps of the different settings in the bible (excellent for anyone), timelines of the prophets (excellent for anyone as well...), and an index that allows you to look up a certain topic quickly!

Before purchasing this bible, I had little interest in reading the bible atall. I would recommend this version to anyone in need of a little "drive" to get going!

The guidelines for all stages of life are written about here
Each one of us, by design is created to be connected to the living, loving God. No matter where you are, God longs to hear from you! This book talks about how we search for fulfillment and only find it, by finding the truthwithin. John 10:10 for instance promises an abundant life, and when we stopto think of it, that's all any of us ever really want. This book can beread over and over and there can still be found new revelations as timegoes by. Awesome!

The Good Book
With an atlas, index, three reading plans, and topical inserts this is a good resource for any Bible reader not just students. However, without a concordance I can not give it 5 stars. ... Read more

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The Bible has been on a long historical journey since its original composition. Its texts have been copied and recopied. And despite the most careful and painstaking efforts of scribes and publishers down through the centuries, errors of one sort or another have crept in and have been reproduced. Sorting out the errors and determining the original wording is the task of textual criticism. In fact, the task of textual criticism is so daunting and detailed that it is divided between Old Testament textual critics and New Testament textual critics. That is why nearly every book on the subject focuses on the textual criticism of either the Old or New Testament. But if you are one of those interested in a general understanding of textual criticism, this book introduces you to textual criticism of the whole Bible--the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. In plain language and with ample illustration, Paul D. Wegner gives you an overview of the history and methods, aims and results of textual criticism. In the process you will gain an appreciation for the vast work that has been accomplished in preserving the text of Scripture and find a renewed confidence in its reliability. ... Read more

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This book comes from a Christian perspective.
I do not recommend this book if you are looking for an objective commentary on textual criticism. This book clearly is written with the inerrancy of the Bible in mind. It spends a paragraphs trying to convince the reader of how accurate textual variants are, and seems to spend no time exploring the differences in them. I felt like it was preaching to me as I read it.

An Excellent Resource on Textual Criticism
I've read books on textual criticism before and seeing this refers to itself as a student's guide, I figured I'd get just the basics. Not at all! Wegner goes into several issues in textual criticism with not just how its done, but the history of textual criticism, great people in that history, and important manuscripts. It is hard to believe that so much can be packed into around 300 pages worth of information, but the reader wanting to learn about textual criticism will not be disappointed with this book.

I highly recommend it as a current Seminary student. I read this book of my own free-will and not as a class requirement, but if I saw that Seminaries and Bible Colleges were having this book be read for classes on the textual criticism of Scripture, I would have to applaud their wisdom.

Best introduction ever
We are accustomed to read NT introduction to textual criticism. But this book is far more complete and easy to read, than the others. With numerous biblical examples, clear explanations, and large bibliographical data, the Student's Guide inoculate the passion of the textual criticism field.

For a firt approach, I warmly commend thisbook, more than Green, Metzger or Tov. Surely, as a professor of Old Testament, P.D. Wegner put a little more emphasis on Old Testament textual criticism. But in view of the plethore of titles consacred to NT, this not a lacune, on the contrary.

So I found the book easy, quite complete, well illustrated, and definitely worthing more than a reading !!!

An exceptional entry point
A wonderful starting point for the novice in the complex and constantly-shifting field of textual criticism. Wegner brings a workman bluecollar approach to the subject helping to give handles to the concepts involved. He provides examples from both testamentswith explanations for the reasoning involved. Two strong features for classroom use are the excurses Wegner provides on how to read the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Hebrew OT) and the UBS 4th Ed (Greek NT). The best feature, however, is the glossary of textual critical terms. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is a perceived favoritism toward the OT that slanted some of it in my reading. ... Read more

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Totally revised and updated, the Students Life Application Study Bible is a Bible designed to help todays teens discover Gods perspective and learn how to apply vital truths to the situations they face daily. Engaging notes, questions, and graphics challenge readers with the Bibles relevant message. All notes and features written by leading youth experts.

Features:

• hundreds of Life Application notes.
• Choices--Notes giving readers options and consequences tied to everyday situations.
• I Wonder--Notes answering commonly asked questions about the Bible and the Christian life.
• Ultimate Issues--Notes taking on the tough issues about God and life.
• Keeping It Real--First-person stories of real teens and how they applied Gods word to situations.
• Personality Profiles dig deep into the motivation of important biblical characters to provide thoughtprovoking information about familiar situations.
• Book introductions summarize the content of each book of the Bible and present megathemes for a quick view of important truths.
• maps and charts and highlighted memory verses.
• 2-color interior throughout.

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Student Hebrew Bible is a basic, complete text of the Hebrew Bible based on the Leningrad Codex. It is aimed to meet the learning needs of beginning Hebrew students, both learning independantly and within a classroom environment. ... Read more