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Difflugia · 02-23-2016, 11:47 AM

HarperCollins has another PDF for a survey deal. In exchange for filling out a survey about social media, you can download NIV Once-A-Day, 31 Days of Wisdom

The Names of God Bible by Ann Spangler is $2.39 at Christianbook and $2.99 at B&N. It's the God's Word translation with the "names of God" left as transliterated Hebrew or Greek words along with some devotional articles. I haven't been won over by the God's Word translation, but I do like reading out of Bibles that leave God's personal name as "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" rather than rendering it as "the LORD".

If you want to see how this edition can radically affect the understanding of a passage, read Genesis 14 and 17 from the sample. "El Elyon" and "El Shaddai" were epithets for the high god of the Canaanite pantheon and many translators have been uncomfortable with God identifying Himself by those names. That, coupled with the tradition of rendering "Yahweh" as "the LORD", means that the theological impact of "Yahweh El Elyon" in 14:22 is lost in the milquetoast English phrase "the LORD God most high".

If you want it from Amazon, it's currently just shy of $20. They'll sometimes match prices if enough people bug them, though.

02-23-2016, 11:47 AM	#72
Difflugia Testate Amoeba Posts: 3,049 Karma: 27300000 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Many Android devices, Kindle 2, Toshiba e755 PocketPC	HarperCollins has another PDF for a survey deal. In exchange for filling out a survey about social media, you can download NIV Once-A-Day, 31 Days of Wisdom The Names of God Bible by Ann Spangler is $2.39 at Christianbook and $2.99 at B&N. It's the God's Word translation with the "names of God" left as transliterated Hebrew or Greek words along with some devotional articles. I haven't been won over by the God's Word translation, but I do like reading out of Bibles that leave God's personal name as "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" rather than rendering it as "the LORD". If you want to see how this edition can radically affect the understanding of a passage, read Genesis 14 and 17 from the sample. "El Elyon" and "El Shaddai" were epithets for the high god of the Canaanite pantheon and many translators have been uncomfortable with God identifying Himself by those names. That, coupled with the tradition of rendering "Yahweh" as "the LORD", means that the theological impact of "Yahweh El Elyon" in 14:22 is lost in the milquetoast English phrase "the LORD God most high". If you want it from Amazon, it's currently just shy of $20. They'll sometimes match prices if enough people bug them, though.