Neato!!!

Yes. I've seen it. It's really nice, but pricey. You will enjoy it I believe.

I also like study Bibles without commentary.

 

Which version is it?

 

I believe it only comes in the KJV, but maybe NIV as well.

 

How do you have "study Bibles" without commentary, unless you have one, with the text only, that has really wide margins or blank pages interleaved between the pages of the text?

Even any marginal references and verses, which are not part of the translator's actual notes are someone else's "commentary"!

Ed

 

Well, I guess you're right in that respect. I was talking more along the lines of huge commentaries like what you'll find in the Nelson study Bible.

Are you out to get me today? :laugh:

 

Given the author...what do you think?:BangHead:

 

Naw, I done got me my honey, :love2: and we have now been married 8 years, with me getting married at the tender age of 50 by "robbing the cradle" with her barely dry behind the ears at 37. (BTW, it is the first marriage, and I do believe it will be the only one, for both of us, unless the Lord should take me home in the short future, anyway.) I do know it will, in all probability, be the only one for me, in any circumstances, but never say "Never!", I guess.

Anywho, I sorta' suspect that she wouldn't like the idea of any competition, and in fact, would be highly irate, were I attempting to 'get' anyone else! :laugh: :laugh:

Ed

 

Now Ed, you know that's NOT what I meant! :laugh: Don't you go and get me in trouble with your honey, not to mention MY honey, who I have been married to for 30 years! Oh my, I'm old.

 

Ed

 

Excellent!

 

I don't have one. The one I saw belonged to someone at church. It seems similar to a Thompson chain, but organized differently. I do have one of those and I really like it when I want to search a particular subject. They are much cheaper too, by the way.

I know what you mean about commentary Bibles. Some of them seem to have more commentary than Bible.

 

That's a valid point, Jim. The vast majority of "study" Bibles are commentary Bibles. The commentary is often provided by folks who have done much studying themselves, but what they daliver is still commentary.

 

Even 'deciding' what verses belong in which category, under 'subject', unless the word in the subject heading is found in them, is 'commentary' of a sort, for that, too, is a subjective judgment. I will grant that some have even far more "commentary" than do some others, for example the Scofield, Ryrie or Dakes, to name three, have far more than, say, Thompson's Chain Reference, IMO. Nevertheless Thompson's (and I would assume Dr. Gaddy's, as well) still has subjective judgments, hence is still "commentary" albeit sub silento, which incidentally means (since I do use that Latin phrase somewhat regularly) "without expressly saying so".

That in no way means that any or all of of the above are not good Study Bibles, for what purpose they were intended, although I cannot speak with any personal specific knowledge about either Dakes or Dr. Gaddy's.

Ed