So It’s Time To Buy A
Bible
By David A. Paher
Printed on April 11, 2004
Tuesday evening, my family went to Montgomery. While we were
there we went to one of its malls.
I soon found myself in Books-A-Million Bookstore. As I walked down the Bible aisles seeking a
new Bible, I was amazed at the selections.
I remember thinking, “Locating a Bible should not be a too difficult
job. How hard can it be?” I
am a preacher with numerous Bibles and am very familiar with translations. Most important was the fact that I had a
particular kind of Bible, version,
binding and color in mind.
Perhaps nothing could have prepared my mind
as to the task at hand than to walk to and fro as I beheld the choices. There were Bibles big and small; tall and
thin; short and fat; GIANT and small print ; Catholic and
Jewish; study and life application; cross-references in center columns or no
references at all; abridged dictionary and/or concordance included; ordinary
Bibles and scholarly Bibles; devotional and thematic; men’s, women’s and teen’s
Bibles; parallel & interlinear; “The Metal Bible,” a new choice identical
to a diary where a young girl stores her memories, only without the lock and
key; and on, and on!
This list is not all-inclusive nor
exhaustive. I have not even included the
Bible type I was hunting—the Thompson Chain Reference Bible. And I have not even begun to include versions
(and we know how many there are), colors, or binding—all of which I was
incorporating into my decision making processes.
After pacing the aisles not a few times, I
finally located the Thompson Chain Reference Bible. The alone copy was not what I had in mind and
so observed the “pass-over.”
For tips on choosing a Bible, see 3 Essential Study Materials.
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