The Right Bible for You

Posted by Tim Patrick on October 10, 2007

The other day I was at my local mega-mega-bookstore and saw The Archaeological Study Bible shelved in the Bibles section. While I knew that archaeological discoveries over the centries have helped to shed light on portions of scripture, it never occurred to me to obtain a Bible with information on the discoveries interleaved with the main biblical text.

Specialized Bibles such as this new one from Zondervan have been available for years. Other examples include the popular Life Application Study Bible (keyed to your life), the Apologetics Study Bible (to help you debate with atheist nasties), The Reformation Study Bible (to help you debate with Catholic and Protestant nasties), Woman Thou Art Loosed Edition Holy Bible (that sounds fun), The Police Officer’s Bible (yes, it’s a real book), and the classic Oxford Study Bible (now with more Oxfords).

With all of these theme-specific Bibles, some on topics that only loosly parallel the 66 books of the Bible, why not come out with some new Bibles that really give the people what they want to read? Here are just a few samples I came up with.

  • The Sin Study Bible – People, even atheists, will buy this one without even checking the content first.
  • The God Who Is Hard To Understand Study Bible – It wouldn’t explain God any better, but it would sit by your side and commiserate with you.
  • The Just-the-words-of-the-Bible-and-nothing-else Study Bible – Isn’t this what we used to read?
  • The Juicy Parts Study Bible – No more reading 1 or 2 Chronicles!
  • The Betty Crocker Study Bible – Great recipes for manna and wine-from-water.
  • The Study Bible – Bible Sold Separately – Just the entertaining study texts with no actual Bible content to get in the way.
This article was posted on October 10, 2007 by Tim Patrick.
Categories: Church and Belief. Tags: , . This post has 2 comments.

2 Responses to “The Right Bible for You”

  1. btds, on October 11th, 2007 at 5:19 am Said:

    You probably missed “The Just-the-words-of-the-Bible-and-nothing-else Study Bible” because they’re marketing it as “Holy Bible — Director’s Cut”.

    I’m holding out for the “The Extended Edition Bible”. I hear that they’re remastering some of the effects shots and include some behind the scenes footage, er, notes. Plus, the book of Hezekiah (e.g., Hez. 2:3 “A rich man’s daughter is a thing of beauty.”) is provided as a special bonus.

  2. K, on November 18th, 2007 at 6:59 pm Said:

    Hi T and M and S,
    It has been a year since Your Great Thanksgiving Feast!
    I am not traveling with T this fall although I do phone her often.
    I am Truly Enjoying the Wittenburg Door. Thanks for the lead.
    I didn’t realize there were Archeological study bibles of value. I will go and take a look.
    THANKS again for the amazing time last Thanksgiving. I enjoyed spending time with your son and the other boy who mostly giggled in Japanese. LOL.
    Blessings to You.
    K.

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