A Tour of the Books on My Desktop
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- A brief tour of the books I currently have within arm's reach atop my desk, to include several Greek New Testaments, three lexicons, a few English Bibles and New Testaments, and one or two books I'm reading.
Though it may sound odd, I find this video fascinating and return to it often. Great collection even on this small shelf, Dr. Jones!
I love seeing other people's bookshelves and this was especially interesting.
Thanks for sharing your desktop library. I think your subscribers would enjoy more videos like this.
Very neat. Ever since I found your UA-cam channel I been blessed by your reviews and learned so much more then just a nice looking cow hide or goat. Hey I got a 1979 Harper study Bible in great condition maybe I'll make a review of it when I get a chance.
Thanks, Zach. I'd like to see that review. What translation is your Harper Study Bible? I have an RSV, but the Harper Study Bible was produced in the NASB also, as I recall. By the way, thanks for giving me the idea for this video. It was very easy to make, and I'm really pleased with the number of views.
@@RGrantJones Rick the Harper Study Bible I have is in the RSV translation. I couldn't believe when I seen it in a local thrift store in Chino CA. It has the dust jacket in perfect condition and it has a sewn binding and overcast stitching. I only paid like $3 or $4 for it.
@@xxZachguyxx - Wow! Very nice!
@@RGrantJones Hey I got that Harper study Bible review on my channel if you wanna see it.
Enjoyed the tour, Thanks
love you stack of books and bibles.
Thanks, gypsy!
I keep in a somewhat small bookshelf all of the really essential editions of the Bible and N.T., as well as the best reference sources (concordances, dictionaries, study Bibles, etc.). I only kept a few such books on the bookshelf at the rear of my desk's bookcase, but with more books of a lexical and ready-reference sort, since I write (or, rather, used to write) a great deal for publication. That way I would not constantly have to get up to look up words, interpretations, and so forth. The little bookcase and my desk shelves are contiguous, so that I can swivel to the book shelf and back to my desk without having to stand.
That sounds like an effective setup. I'm constrained by room size and existing furniture at the moment, but perhaps I can upgrade my work area at some point.
Would you consider doing an update of this? Great video.
Thanks for the suggestion, Foff! Let me think about it.
Please do a review of that 1949 Thomas Nelson RSV on the top shelf! Would love to see it in detail.
P.S.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Jones!
Merry Christmas, Nicole! I'll review it eventually. It is a beautiful book, particularly for a price of about 50 cents. Very nicely printed in a large font. It belonged to a Ruth Walk. I think she was a school teacher who lived in Indiana. I suspect it was given to her as a gift. It has a list of names in pencil on one of the card stock pages, along with the date, 3 April 1949. She didn't use it much: I can tell because I had to separate quite a few pages!
Wonder what commentaries he uses? He didn't say, although probably on the kindle is where his commentaries are kept. Interesting report.
Sound quality and volume was very good. Better than on your more recent videos!
Thanks for letting me know, acardnal!
@@RGrantJones More info: I have been listening on my laptop with the volume at 100 percent.
No head phones used.
Excellent. Similar to my bookshelf, but with more variety of Greek NTs. As I sometimes say to my friends, "You are a gentleman and a scholar!" I always look forward to your videos!
I settled on the Majority Text position in the 1980s (not textus receptus and not critical text, though I use the KJV quite a lot as well as the NKJV a bit). Are you a critical text man? Some critical text Conservative Evangelical scholars make good points for their position, too. I'm not dogmatic about my position.
Thanks for those kind words, Philip. I think I might have wandered into the Critical Text camp. I leaned toward the Majority Text view for many years, perhaps decades, without looking into the issue very closely. Both sides have problems. I'm not convinced that the medieval Majority Text represents the autographs, nor can I understand how it could have actually existed in Asia Minor for the first four or nine centuries (depending on whom you listen to) of the Christian era without being widely used by early Christian writers. On the other hand, I have yet to see a good explanation for the rise of the Majority Text if it was _not_ the original. The one position I'm growing more and more skeptical about every day is the _Textus Receptus_ priority view, even though advocates like Robert Truelove and the late Robert Paul Wieland are/were very articulate Christian gentlemen.
I'm a KJV lover but not KJV only. I respect Dr. James R. White of A and O ministries and he seems to be ESV. All the doctrines of the Faith are taught in the ESV, and I even have an RSV! So, if you believe the Critical Text is what you believe, you are NOT somehow second class. You have some good Christian scholars in you company! Blessings.
I really look forward to your review of that Logos Complete Study Bible. Its one of my favorite Bibles. Would you comment on the missing manuscripts from Page IX? It would be great if you can locate those pages so one could down load them as an addendum to our Bibles.....
Thanks for commenting, Dayeton! You can view that video here: ua-cam.com/video/pdL841Tl56o/v-deo.html .
I heard the interlinear greek english new testament by george ricker berry is actually by thomas newberry (the same guy who did the newberry reference bible). I heard george ricker berry only added some material to the end of the thomas newberry interlinear.
Would you review Lamsa's text?? That would be fascinating!!
Thanks for the question! Yes, I intend to. God willing, I'll get to it this year.
Have you ever thought of writing a book on the bible? You could cover textual criticism and various interesting comments on the various main texts and probably lots more I cannot think of.
Thanks for the details, which is the best text type in Hebrew & Greek?
Yvonne - thanks for the question, but it's one that I'm not able to answer very well. I do know that the term 'text type' has fallen out of favor with New Testament textual critics, since only the Byzantine text is uniform enough to regard the various manuscripts as being of a single type. That makes sense to me, so I don't use the terms "Alexandrian', 'Western', or 'Caesarean' text type myself. I know very little about Old Testament textual criticism.
I really want to learn the original languages. What would be some good tools or books to use?
Pastor Brian - I can't say anything about Hebrew, since I've never tried to learn it. For Greek, I used the Greek Tutor software program. It was great, but I'm not sure it's still available. Mounce's _Basics of Biblical Greek_ is an excellent resource. This site might be just the thing to get you started: dailydoseofgreek.com/ .
@@RGrantJones Thank you!
Mounce for sure!
Grant, do you know of an English parallel of the LXX & MT, like let's say the NETS & RSV in a parallel Bible?
I'm sure it's out there, but I haven't found one. You could make your own with texts you find online
Old logos study bible based on the 1910 cross reference bible seems to be quite different from the later software company which is also called logos.
Love your library. Are you at all familiar with the PHILOKALIA?
Yes. I read the first four volumes about 20 years ago. Why do you ask?
@@RGrantJones Only curious. I just found out that Vol. 5 is available on Kindle.
Gosh i wonder if he is a Christian? (amazing video mate)
Did you ever do a review on that Peshitta?
Not yet, but I intend to.
So if I may ask, based on all your different reviews, etc what is your belief?
if you only could have one bible which one would you pick? @R. Grant Jones
How about Another hour of some of your other books/bibles?
Also, please do review Bruce Metzger's Greek New Testament book and Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament. Would love to see those too in your future reviews.
God bless!
I can review Metzger's textual commentary. I'd like to show the Westcott and Hort NT, but Hendrickson won't give me permission. They offered to send me the current edition, which is a paperback. But I have no desire to receive books from publishers for review, because I don't think I could remain objective if I did; and I don't really need a second (paperback) copy.
@@RGrantJones Rick I have a question, do you have to get permission from a publisher to review a Bible? Or any book for that matter?
@@xxZachguyxx - not as a general rule. But I decided to ask Hendrickson's permission when I read their very no-nonsense copyright notice.
Definitely would like a review of Metzger's commentary.
OK. I'll review it, God willing. My thanks to Nicole Angelo Rome for suggesting it, and to you, Joe LaGuardia, for seconding the motion.
Why do you need their permission to review a bible? What would happen if you reviewed it without their permission? When you do get permission, is it in writing?
I don't think permission is absolutely necessary, given Fair Use laws. But I'm not a lawyer, and Hendrickson's copyright notice is written in such absolute terms, I thought it wise to ask permission. Hendrickson didn't say "no", but they didn't give me permission either. (On other occasions, when they did give permission, it was in written form, in an email.)
@@RGrantJones interesting. Thank you.
I think some ecumenical Study Bibles are needed which are done by Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox (and not Jewish because they have their own JPS Bible) scholars and take into account commentary of these denominations. Is it possible? Secular, humanistic study Bibles make no sense.
Thanks for commenting, Hassan! That's an interesting idea. It could be challenging, since there is such a variety of Protestant groups.
@@RGrantJones Welcome. I said this because the Study Quran has Shia, Sunni, Sufi commentaries and Study Jewish Bible is prepared by Conservative and Reformed Jewish scholars. Both are ecumenical books. NRSV is the only ecumenical translation out there (which is amazing), but the only ecumenical Christian study Bibles are the humanist ones, which is a scandal. Few protestant groups be enough?
Oops tour.
Tweak it in a little bit more on treble setting! Still sounds like squeaky sneakers on the basketball court
Thanks for the constructive criticism, john. Perhaps you could listen to a one of my last three videos and let me know how it sounds to you. This one is a few years old.