HSCB Minister's Bible, Part 2

The cover of the book is genuine cowhide leather.

 with golden text on the spine with publishers logo .....

with nothing on the front and back side.

Golden edge 

is little bit pale

 

but this depends on lightning  and viewing position.

 

There are two ribbons  markers.

Cover page opens easily and stay open. As you can see there is a double end-paper ...

 

but second one does not open at all but you do not need that page anyway.

 End-paper is made of artificial plastic-like material but cover leather is glued over paste-down.

IMO this is not very good design practice ....

because the leather will surely separate (peel of)  in time.

This paste-down end-sheet should have been pasted over the leather edges...

 like in the picture above.

Another problem I have found was cover overlap.

 

On one side the overlap is bigger ....

then the other.

 

Although I have great respect for the publisher I can not hide my disappointment with poor craftsmenship of my  review copy.

 Since the book has a lifetime guarantee, you do not have to worry about the book falling apart.

Among some minor esthetic issues bible still looks impressive ...

and robust and it will serve you well.

Bookviewers

A new book review blog

 

Intention of a new blog  is to be an extension of the Bibleware blog where mainly Bibles are presented.
I have separated the blog to avoid a genre confusion. Neither one of the blogs are religious, unless you consider book obsession a  religion.

So feel free to visit the Bookviewers. 




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ESV German/English Parallel Bible

ESV German/English Parallel Bible

by Crossway

 

• Hardcover: 2432 pages
• Publisher: Crossway; Bilingual edition (March 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 2 inches 

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Hardcovers of the book are made of is cloth-textured paper.

It looks pretty nice and heavy, but....

 

 .... it is not that heavy because 

 

paper is extremely-transparently thin

The book starts with the introduction.....

 

...to the Luthers translation, i Gremaman language,and.......

 

introduction to the ESV translation , in English language.

Why can not I read about Luther's translation in English ? 

 

Like any other Bible this one also starts with the Genesis :)

It is verse by verse layout.

 The proof that book is sewn....

and thyt can lay flat without problem, not just in the middle but from the first / last page. 

So the question is : 

Why would you need English German parallel Bible ?

 

HCSB Minister's Bible, Part 1

HCSB Minister's Bible 

Black Genuine Leather

Publisher: Holman Bible Publishers

Technical Details:

1824 pages

English language

Dimensions: 26,2 x 18,3 x 4,3 cm  or  10.3 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches 

Weight: 1730 g

The Book  came in a very nice card box ...

 

...nicely placed  into thick black paper sleeve ...

....twice.

 So, here it is. HCSB Minster's Bible.

To be Continued.....

The Holy Bible: New European Version

The Holy Bible: New European Version

With Commentary by Duncan Hester

 

To be continued.....

The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four Formative Texts : Part 2

Now lets get inside the book. The Content.

As the title says it contains two times more book then actual New Testament.

You can see dome of the new books together with old (more familiar) ones.

Each chapter begins with the authors (Robert M. Price)  introduction where he explains the history behind each book. For example how no body knows who wrote it, how historically incorrect the book is etc. Translation is very formal , sometimes  accompanied with  funny/ironic/mocking commentaries. You must understand him there are really funny ( for some believers disturbing , blasphemous) stories....

 

... like Infancy of Jesus.  Where Jesus is depicted more like Damien  from Omen.

You can also find there an anti-gospel 

Before Avengers there was Taledoth Jeshu. Comic book lovers might find this descriptions of  hero-villain  air fight very amusing.

And to conclude this review.....

I can say that  paper quality  is very good. It  is glossy and thick with no transparency.
Introductions of an authors are very valuable and funny. Sometimes they seem not serious enough, but that is just an authors authoritative writing stile.
The book is big, more then 1000 pages and it will be a very good asset for someone who objectively studies  christian religion. 

Warnings

 If you  are not going to read this book very often be careful how to store it on your shelf.

I would not suggest to store this book vertically like this...

...because of gravity impact on the spine of the book.
You can see the curve (top view) on the spine.
This happens when you store it vertically .
Some book are more immune to this . This one is not.

As you can see on the bottom the curve is not present.

If you are going tho store it vertically  anyway ,
you can at least often change the horizontal/vertical position of the book.

Coming Soon

 

ESV German/English Parallel Bible

 

HCSB Minister's Bible

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