Used copies of a hardback and a leather edition are available through Amazon.com (though the price for the leather edition seems much, much too high). Links: www.amazon.com/NIV-Spirit-Reformation-Study-Bible/dp/0310923603/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=NIV+Spirit+of+the+Reformation+Study+Bible+leather&qid=1561312307&s=books&sr=1-2 www.amazon.com/Spirit-Reformation-Study-Bible-Leather/dp/0310923638/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=NIV+Spirit+of+the+Reformation+Study+Bible+leather&qid=1561312452&s=books&sr=1-2
@@pr.leandroribeiro - no, sorry. I think it might be hard to find one in new condition (with the plastic wrap still in place) at a lower price. I recommend searching eBay from time to time. You might find one in very good condition.
Will do. Thanks for your advice. I am greatly informed by your reviews. They have been a blessing. Will you do a review on the Reformation Heritage Study Bible. Interested in knowing your thoughts.
I keep coming back to this review of yours about this particular Reformed Study Bible. I feel like a lot of Reformed folks like I am are missing out on the good things that this Study Bible has to offer. Plus the NIV84 translation usage is a beautiful combination with the Reformed study notes. I really hope the 1984 variant of the said translation would be published widely again. Great job on the comprehensive review! I am always a constant viewer and I appreciate the breadth and depth of your reviews. Please, just keep on doing what youʼre doing. 🙏🏼 God bless this endeavor of yours and may the Lord be glorified more as you help others learn better about the Scriptures in ways that you can. ✝
Thanks for the encouragement, Nikko R! I've never been an NIV advocate, but the 1984 edition is better than the 2011, in my opinion. Will it ever be widely available again? I seriously doubt it. May God bless you and yours!
Hello Reverend! Would you be able to grab the new Orthodox Study Bible from Ancient Faith Ministries and review it? I'm thinking about mowing the lawn for mom and saving up for it. Thanks for what you do!
First Name Last Name - I'm no reverend! I reviewed the Orthodox Study Bible a few months ago. You can see that review here: ua-cam.com/video/7BzYh3WskL4/v-deo.html&t= . My copy is a few years old, but I don't think it's been changed.
Does this study Bible teach notes with an old-earth view of creation in Genesis 1? I wish I could find a copy of its notes on Genesis 1 and 2. Where can I find this, before I buy it? Shipping costs to me are across the globe. I don't want a Bible I have to return.
Can someone please direct me to the most accurate and practical bible for easy understanding. I has this bible but unfortunately lost it due to water damage. Should I just get this NIV Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible again?
Gutter bibles drive me nutty, those long columns are way to much for me also, esp in a study bible. Another one from the vault, you've had many, many , many...many ...many years to build such a great library..😃
Some of the problems in older Bibles (like text in the gutter) seem not to occur much anymore. I rarely see a glued binding. But the wide, single column is surprisingly popular -- maybe because the Bible Design Blog guy promotes it. He reviewed this Bible, by the way, and didn't say anything negative about the glue or the gutter. www.bibledesignblog.com/blog/2007/09/spirit-of-the-r.html I'll run out of Bibles eventually. I might do more translation reviews, and maybe some book reviews. You're right about the vault. I've been buying Bibles, using them, and finding out what I like and dislike about them since 1982. Suppose I bought only two a year, gave away a few, and lost only a few to basement floods. I'd still have a good number taking up shelf space.
There are 5-6,000 translations of the greek NT. So we compare them to the Holy Bible or the AV. But the reason older transcripts are still around is because they were never used by the church. The greek ones we have today are all faulty and changed. Don’t you think spending so much time in the greek messes with what is truth Grant? It just brings about confusion
Fred - thanks very much for your comment, but I'm not sure what you mean. I don't think I even mentioned the Greek in this review. The AV NT is a revision of the Bishops' Bible NT. The AV NT is based on certain Greek printed editions (and possibly manuscripts) available to the translators at the time. So if I were interested in how well those early seventeenth century members of the Church of England translated the New Testament, I would naturally compare their English product to the Greek they started from. I don't know how else to proceed.
R. Grant Jones yes sir. No really I was just asking a question I watch all your videos. Sorry I was confusing. But I see your view point. I know that there are tons of manuscripts kept that were not actually used in the beginning and that why they stuck around they were unused. The original page if it were still around ppl would worship it 😂 but just wanted to see what u thought. Because there are many NT greek transcripts so it’s just hard to say what’s right
@@fredeskridge22 - I'd say that it's difficult to be certain about these things. I know that some people say that Vaticanus and Sinaiticus survived the centuries because they weren't used, but the notes added by later scribes indicate that someone used them for something. Whether they were used in *church services* is another matter. I'm a little suspicious of the papyri, since I don't know anything about the communities that used them. But they aren't monolithic, as they might be if they were the products of a particular heretical sect. On the other hand, if the Greek texts used in the later Roman empire (commonly called the Byzantine empire), which found their way west around 1453, represent the original text, it's difficult to understand why that form of the text isn't quoted almost exclusively by at least some Christian writers before Chrysostom. Why wasn't it chosen as the basis for early translations, say into Latin? I think that form of text would have existed in Egypt also, where fragments could have been preserved in the dry climate. Did the Christians destroy their copies when they were worn out, while heretical sects buried theirs in the sand? There's also uncertainty associated with translation -- can we be completely confident that we understand how specific words were used in particular geographic locations at specific times? I don't think so. But while there may be some doubt about details, I think that essentially the same message comes across whether we read a critical text based translation or one based on the Majority Text or the Textus Receptus. If you take any book of the New Testament and summarize its main teachings, I think you come up with essentially the same message regardless of the text source. It's not as if John's gospel in one group of manuscripts is about Jesus the Christ and what he taught and accomplished in his life, death on the cross, and resurrection; and the gospel of John in another group of manuscripts is about a certain Jesus who kidnapped Persephone and took her to the underworld. The accounts in the various manuscripts are nearly identical -- much, much closer than the typical Hollywood movie is to the novel it's based on.
R. Grant Jones thanks so much for taking time to reply all that. You know a lot more then i when it comes to all the different manuscripts and base texts. I’d like to learn more. I’ve always want to Be some what simple concerning other translations. Mainly because I think I would spend to much time thinking over it rather then keeping the main thing what it is. Thanks Mr. Grant keep killing the review game.
Used copies of a hardback and a leather edition are available through Amazon.com (though the price for the leather edition seems much, much too high).
Links:
www.amazon.com/NIV-Spirit-Reformation-Study-Bible/dp/0310923603/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=NIV+Spirit+of+the+Reformation+Study+Bible+leather&qid=1561312307&s=books&sr=1-2
www.amazon.com/Spirit-Reformation-Study-Bible-Leather/dp/0310923638/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=NIV+Spirit+of+the+Reformation+Study+Bible+leather&qid=1561312452&s=books&sr=1-2
@@pr.leandroribeiro - no, sorry. I think it might be hard to find one in new condition (with the plastic wrap still in place) at a lower price. I recommend searching eBay from time to time. You might find one in very good condition.
Will do. Thanks for your advice. I am greatly informed by your reviews. They have been a blessing. Will you do a review on the Reformation Heritage Study Bible. Interested in knowing your thoughts.
@@stephenwilson9924 - I reviewed a hardback edition of the Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible here: ua-cam.com/video/YFEz-XqUHuQ/v-deo.html .
I keep coming back to this review of yours about this particular Reformed Study Bible.
I feel like a lot of Reformed folks like I am are missing out on the good things that this Study Bible has to offer. Plus the NIV84 translation usage is a beautiful combination with the Reformed study notes. I really hope the 1984 variant of the said translation would be published widely again.
Great job on the comprehensive review! I am always a constant viewer and I appreciate the breadth and depth of your reviews.
Please, just keep on doing what youʼre doing. 🙏🏼 God bless this endeavor of yours and may the Lord be glorified more as you help others learn better about the Scriptures in ways that you can. ✝
Thanks for the encouragement, Nikko R! I've never been an NIV advocate, but the 1984 edition is better than the 2011, in my opinion. Will it ever be widely available again? I seriously doubt it. May God bless you and yours!
Good channel! Greetings from Finland!
Thanks for the encouraging comment, Johan!
This is just about the only channel I where I can confidently ‘Like’ before I even watch the video 😂
Thanks, Mr Man!
Hello Reverend! Would you be able to grab the new Orthodox Study Bible from Ancient Faith Ministries and review it? I'm thinking about mowing the lawn for mom and saving up for it. Thanks for what you do!
First Name Last Name - I'm no reverend! I reviewed the Orthodox Study Bible a few months ago. You can see that review here: ua-cam.com/video/7BzYh3WskL4/v-deo.html&t= . My copy is a few years old, but I don't think it's been changed.
I believe that was a nkjv translation.
@@ThatswhatsupTWU - the New Testament is the NKJV. The Old Testament is the NKJV modified (inconsistently) in the direction of the Septuagint.
Could you, please, tell me, in your opinion wich one is the best - Reformation Study Bible or The Spirit of Reformation?
I would give the edge to the Reformation Study Bible.
Does this study Bible teach notes with an old-earth view of creation in Genesis 1? I wish I could find a copy of its notes on Genesis 1 and 2. Where can I find this, before I buy it? Shipping costs to me are across the globe. I don't want a Bible I have to return.
I own the kjv apologetics study Bible, not the CSB version, I would be very interested about your thoughts. Thank you, love the channel!!!!!
It's black and red with black and red ribbon markers for my exact version. Thank you
Thank you sir, good info. I was curious if there's a reformation fathers quoting in NIV spirit of reformation?
Can someone please direct me to the most accurate and practical bible for easy understanding. I has this bible but unfortunately lost it due to water damage. Should I just get this NIV Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible again?
Macarthur study Bible is really good. It gives the best interpretation compared to my other study Bibles.
Gutter bibles drive me nutty, those long columns are way to much for me also, esp in a study bible.
Another one from the vault, you've had many, many , many...many ...many years to build such a great library..😃
Some of the problems in older Bibles (like text in the gutter) seem not to occur much anymore. I rarely see a glued binding. But the wide, single column is surprisingly popular -- maybe because the Bible Design Blog guy promotes it. He reviewed this Bible, by the way, and didn't say anything negative about the glue or the gutter. www.bibledesignblog.com/blog/2007/09/spirit-of-the-r.html
I'll run out of Bibles eventually. I might do more translation reviews, and maybe some book reviews. You're right about the vault. I've been buying Bibles, using them, and finding out what I like and dislike about them since 1982. Suppose I bought only two a year, gave away a few, and lost only a few to basement floods. I'd still have a good number taking up shelf space.
Airik1111 - That has be the nicest way to call someone old that I’ve ever heard. I’m gonna steal it 👍🏻
@@jc6618 Its an inside funny between us ....It is cool knowing someone who was around when the first Thompson Chain was printed😂
@@jc6618 - it's not his fault. I started the old jokes -- Airik1111 is clever at coming up with new ones.
There are 5-6,000 translations of the greek NT. So we compare them to the Holy Bible or the AV. But the reason older transcripts are still around is because they were never used by the church. The greek ones we have today are all faulty and changed. Don’t you think spending so much time in the greek messes with what is truth Grant? It just brings about confusion
Fred - thanks very much for your comment, but I'm not sure what you mean. I don't think I even mentioned the Greek in this review.
The AV NT is a revision of the Bishops' Bible NT. The AV NT is based on certain Greek printed editions (and possibly manuscripts) available to the translators at the time. So if I were interested in how well those early seventeenth century members of the Church of England translated the New Testament, I would naturally compare their English product to the Greek they started from. I don't know how else to proceed.
R. Grant Jones yes sir. No really I was just asking a question I watch all your videos. Sorry I was confusing. But I see your view point. I know that there are tons of manuscripts kept that were not actually used in the beginning and that why they stuck around they were unused. The original page if it were still around ppl would worship it 😂 but just wanted to see what u thought. Because there are many NT greek transcripts so it’s just hard to say what’s right
@@fredeskridge22 - I'd say that it's difficult to be certain about these things. I know that some people say that Vaticanus and Sinaiticus survived the centuries because they weren't used, but the notes added by later scribes indicate that someone used them for something. Whether they were used in *church services* is another matter. I'm a little suspicious of the papyri, since I don't know anything about the communities that used them. But they aren't monolithic, as they might be if they were the products of a particular heretical sect.
On the other hand, if the Greek texts used in the later Roman empire (commonly called the Byzantine empire), which found their way west around 1453, represent the original text, it's difficult to understand why that form of the text isn't quoted almost exclusively by at least some Christian writers before Chrysostom. Why wasn't it chosen as the basis for early translations, say into Latin? I think that form of text would have existed in Egypt also, where fragments could have been preserved in the dry climate. Did the Christians destroy their copies when they were worn out, while heretical sects buried theirs in the sand?
There's also uncertainty associated with translation -- can we be completely confident that we understand how specific words were used in particular geographic locations at specific times? I don't think so.
But while there may be some doubt about details, I think that essentially the same message comes across whether we read a critical text based translation or one based on the Majority Text or the Textus Receptus. If you take any book of the New Testament and summarize its main teachings, I think you come up with essentially the same message regardless of the text source. It's not as if John's gospel in one group of manuscripts is about Jesus the Christ and what he taught and accomplished in his life, death on the cross, and resurrection; and the gospel of John in another group of manuscripts is about a certain Jesus who kidnapped Persephone and took her to the underworld. The accounts in the various manuscripts are nearly identical -- much, much closer than the typical Hollywood movie is to the novel it's based on.
R. Grant Jones thanks so much for taking time to reply all that. You know a lot more then i when it comes to all the different manuscripts and base texts. I’d like to learn more. I’ve always want to
Be some what simple concerning other translations. Mainly because I think I would spend to much time thinking over it rather then keeping the main thing what it is. Thanks Mr. Grant keep killing the review game.