Understanding the Bible isn't for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It's meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your 21st-century life.
This third edition of How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth features substantial revisions that keep pace with current scholarship, resources, and culture. Changes include:
- Updated language
- A new authors' preface
- Several chapters rewritten for better readability
- Updated list of recommended commentaries and resources
Covering everything from translational concerns to different genres of biblical writing,
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth is used worldwide. In clear, simple language, it helps you accurately understand the different parts of the Bible---their meaning for ancient audiences and their implications for you today---so you can uncover the inexhaustible worth that is in God's Word.
Biblical interpretation for both beginning and experienced Bible readers. Changes to the new third edition include: updated language, new foreword, improved diagrams, substantial rewriting of several chapters to make them more user-friendly, and updated list of recommended commentaries and resources.
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Reviewed by Anthony Shuler (Kansas, U.S.A.), February 01, 2010
Maybe a better name would have been "How to Rape the Bible for all it's worth." Very poor book on hermeneutics. And I still can't understand how they could be so insane as to say that when you study the Bible it's O.K. to use paraphrases but not the KJV or NKJV. They could very well be committed for think that paraphrases are better than the Bible used by the Church for almost it's entire history. And I know KJV was translated in 1611 but that only marked the English version, the text was around for a very long time and was even called the "received text" because it is what was regarded as being the true text of the Bible. And their research was so bad it's sinful. They, for example, dust out the tired old argument that 1 John 5:7 was added to the received text in the 17th century even though John Calvin quotes it in his Institutes of the Christian Religion in the 16th century. How is it that it was added in the 17th century when it was quoted by Church Fathers who died before it was added? Either Calvin had a time machine or these fellows didn't research this book at all. And no I'm not a KJV only person. I just don't take kindly to incompetent scholarship.
2.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Johnny (Georgia), November 09, 2009
It is a relatively solid introduction to hermeneutics. The twenty page advertisement for the TNIV translation in chapter 2 is tedious and erases a good bit of Gordon Fee's credibility. Fee was on the committee that translated the TNIV and it is published by Zondervan, which also published this book. Had it not been for chapter 2, I would have given this book 4 stars.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Augustine Mascaro (Nyack, NY), September 04, 2009
"How to read the Bible for all its worth" is an excelent text on the study of scripture from its historical context.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Angela Donahue (Saint Louis, MO), August 10, 2009
I am very pleased with the availabilty of products I have needed and the delivery service is excellent. I always find what I need and save money as well. "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth" is highly recommended by many churches as an excellent read in understanding the linguistics and context. It is full of information and easy to digest. I highly recommend this book for every Christian to read.
3 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Michael Davidson (Lebanon, Ohio), July 24, 2009
It is a little dry. I would recommend "Hermeneutics" by Virkler and Avayo instead. You can glean some good info, I just believe there are better alternatives.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Billy Stevens (San Angelo, TX), May 15, 2009
Excellent resource for all laymen who want to be serious about bible study. I wish I had acquired this insight years ago but I am thankful that someone highly recommended this book to me.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Samuel William (Woodridge, IL), March 25, 2009
This book is a must tool in understanding the Scripture as it was written and what it is intended for today.
4.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Gary Smith (Farmington Falls, ME), January 27, 2009
This was a very good edition with lots of help for the class I am taking
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