Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories

Deciding which bibles and bible references and bible commentaries to stock is a 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.

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