Bible Overview
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Good for consise summaries.
The Rose Bible Overview is a good book for a quick study of a certain book. It portrays interesting facts with time-lines, pictures, side notes, charts, outlines and maps. This book gives facts about background, key verses, main themes, and application. One thing I thought was really cool was how the book showed Christ in each book overview, Genesis - Revelation.
It helps us get a greater grasp of who He really is.
In my opinion, this book would be great for new Christians as well as older ones, as it is a good study tool and still gives basic info for younger people to understand. One other thing is it shows the purpose of the book. This is helpful to those who may only see words, not getting it's real meaning. This helps people look past the genealogies and such to find the real meaning behind the story. God could certainly use this book to show one something he / she hadn't seen before. Although one could find the same information regarding a certain book by self-study, This helps.
May 17, 2013
Excellent resource
"Bible Overview" is a Bible reference book that gives a summary of each book of the Protestant Bible and also explains how it relates to the overall themes of the Bible--like how God interacts with mankind and mankind's need for a savior.
Overall, I found this book interesting, informative, and an easy enough read that tweens, teens, and adults could all get a lot out of it. This would make a great youth group or new believer Bible study on understanding the Bible as a whole. Rose Publishing permits making "up to 300 copies of individual pages from the book for classroom use."
"Bible Overview" starts with an introduction: how we got the Bible, reasons to study the Bible, and how to study the Bible. Next is an overview of the whole Old Testament. Later there's an overview of the whole New Testament, including some historical background information about the inter-testament period.
There's also an overview of each group of books (Pentateuch, historical books, poetry and wisdom books, prophetic books; gospels & acts, epistles & revelation). These explained why certain books were grouped together and also summarized the main themes, types of writing, and key people in that grouping.
Then, for each Biblical book, we told the book's purpose (a quick summary of the book and what we learn about God--and mankind--from the events in this book), where the book got its name, a chart or two summarizing important patterns or information, an outline of the major events and what chapters contain those events, who wrote the book and when (giving both traditional and "late dates"), where and when the events took place, the main themes, a few key verses, parallels and contrasts between how God related to mankind then and how God relates to Christians now, and the Jesus theme ("Christ fulfills this need").
Each also had a full-color timelime showing when events in that book took place and usually had a simple map showing the main locations and movements mentioned in that book. Some had a list of the most significant people in that book. Full-color pictures were used as decorative chapter headings, and some other paintings and photos were sprinkled throughout the book.
I received this ebook as a review copy from the publisher.
February 19, 2013
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