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  • Welcome/
  • About Us/
    • Our Philosophy
    • Our History
    • FAQ
  • Events/
    • New Events
    • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    • What Goes On Here . . . .
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    • Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator
    • Anarchism
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Audiobooks: Fiction
    • Audiobooks: Nonfiction
    • Audiobooks: Poetry and Drama
    • The Beat Generation
    • Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
    • Books, New & Notable
    • Books: Children's New & Notable
    • Books in Original Languages or Translated from English
    • Boxed Notecards
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Cookbooks
    • Dance
    • Decomposition Books
    • Downton Abbey and its world
    • DVDs
    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
    • Graphic Lit: DC and Marvel
    • Graphic Lit: Vintage and Independent
    • Harry Potter
    • Honey
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2017
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2018
    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
    • Out of Print Clothing and Accessories
    • Out of Print Sizing Guide for T-Shirts
    • Outdoors/Nature
    • Pennsylvania Outdoors
    • Pennsylvania Plain People
    • Puppets and Toys
    • Puzzles
    • Scotland & the Scottish Diaspora
    • Signed Copies
    • Staff Picks
    • Summer Reading Books for Local Schools
    • Vikings
    • Vintage Radio
    • Wendell Berry
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Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories

WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP

  • Welcome/
  • About Us/
    • Our Philosophy
    • Our History
    • FAQ
  • Events/
    • New Events
    • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    • What Goes On Here . . . .
  • Merchandise/
    • Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator
    • Anarchism
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Audiobooks: Fiction
    • Audiobooks: Nonfiction
    • Audiobooks: Poetry and Drama
    • The Beat Generation
    • Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
    • Books, New & Notable
    • Books: Children's New & Notable
    • Books in Original Languages or Translated from English
    • Boxed Notecards
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Cookbooks
    • Dance
    • Decomposition Books
    • Downton Abbey and its world
    • DVDs
    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
    • Graphic Lit: DC and Marvel
    • Graphic Lit: Vintage and Independent
    • Harry Potter
    • Honey
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2017
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2018
    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
    • Out of Print Clothing and Accessories
    • Out of Print Sizing Guide for T-Shirts
    • Outdoors/Nature
    • Pennsylvania Outdoors
    • Pennsylvania Plain People
    • Puppets and Toys
    • Puzzles
    • Scotland & the Scottish Diaspora
    • Signed Copies
    • Staff Picks
    • Summer Reading Books for Local Schools
    • Vikings
    • Vintage Radio
    • Wendell Berry
  • Our Staff/
    • Staff
    • Staff Picks
  • Location & Directions/
  • Blog/
  • Contact Us/

Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories

Deciding which bibles and bible references and bible commentaries to stock is an immense challenge.  I attempt a historical and a critical approach.  We begin with the Hebrew and Greek originals.  We move through the significant translations chronologically:  the Geneva (with its sharp and learned Calvinist notes), the King James (safer for its sponsor), the New Revised Standard, and the excellent harvest of translations in the late 20th Century -- the New International, the English Standard, and the Common English.

Our dictionaries and handbooks tend to be a little conservative, mostly because I am skeptical of the confidence and the imagination of modern liberal scholars.  Two thousand years of brilliant minds have thought about and written about scriptures (longer and more in the case of the Hebrew scriptures), and the humble approach with that perspective is useful and wise.  The best approach is to begin with the basics and  go from there.

On a less controversial note, protect your treasure of wisdom with a book cover or tote.  We have several designs with neat features.

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Names of Jesus Bible Book Cover
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John 3:16 Cross LuxLeather Journal
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Names of Jesus Classic Luxleather Journal
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Romans 12:12 Be Joyful in Hope Journal
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I Once Was Lost, But Now I'm Found Journal
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  • Welcome/
  • About Us/
    • Our Philosophy
    • Our History
    • FAQ
  • Events/
    • New Events
    • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    • What Goes On Here . . . .
  • Merchandise/
    • Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator
    • Anarchism
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Audiobooks: Fiction
    • Audiobooks: Nonfiction
    • Audiobooks: Poetry and Drama
    • The Beat Generation
    • Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
    • Books, New & Notable
    • Books: Children's New & Notable
    • Books in Original Languages or Translated from English
    • Boxed Notecards
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Cookbooks
    • Dance
    • Decomposition Books
    • Downton Abbey and its world
    • DVDs
    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
    • Graphic Lit: DC and Marvel
    • Graphic Lit: Vintage and Independent
    • Harry Potter
    • Honey
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2017
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2018
    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
    • Out of Print Clothing and Accessories
    • Out of Print Sizing Guide for T-Shirts
    • Outdoors/Nature
    • Pennsylvania Outdoors
    • Pennsylvania Plain People
    • Puppets and Toys
    • Puzzles
    • Scotland & the Scottish Diaspora
    • Signed Copies
    • Staff Picks
    • Summer Reading Books for Local Schools
    • Vikings
    • Vintage Radio
    • Wendell Berry
  • Our Staff/
    • Staff
    • Staff Picks
  • Location & Directions/
  • Blog/
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WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP

Whistlestop Bookshop is an independent bookseller in Carlisle PA.  Founded in 1985, Whistlestop sells new and secondhand books  in all categories and a wide variety of sidelines, from magazines to puzzles, literary t-shirts to cds and dvds, from totes to local honey.  Our mission is to get the right books in the right hands at the right time.

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