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GtrsRGr8 · 04-25-2019, 09:08 PM

The Ephesians book by Coekin appears to be a good one. It's got a 4.9(11) rating at Amazon, and 4.00(68) rating at GoodReads.

I didn't recognize the name "Coekin." Maybe he's an up-and-comer, and we'll be seeing more of his works in the future.

FYI--the Ephesians book is $9.99 as a Kindle.

Difflugia · 05-01-2019, 04:50 PM

The Logos freebie this month is a super good one. If you don't already have a Logos account, my opinion is that it's worth signing up just for this book.

A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles by I. Howard Marshall and Philip H. Towner.

If you're willing to spend another $4.98 ($1.99 for the first, $2.99 for the second), you can also get A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Volumes One and Two by C. K. Barrett.

These are volumes of the International Critical Commentary series, which is similar to the Anchor Yale Bible series. If you don't know what the "Pastoral Epistles" are, the free volume covers Titus, First Timothy and Second Timothy.

If you want to know the scholars' opinions about the theology and textual traditions of the various books of the Bible, you can't do better than this series and, to borrow a phrase that normally doesn't come up in biblical discussions, "the first one's free." I can't recommend these books highly enough.

The entire series is also on sale for $1,121.68 (regular price $1929.99), in case you like it so much you just need to have all of them.

Keep in mind that Logos books can't be liberated by Alf's tools and require free Logos software to be read offline. They can, however, be read anytime online at biblia.com if you login using your Logos account credentials.

The volumes are updated periodically so that they reflect the latest scholarship, but it's been around long enough that some of the original volumes have entered the public domain. Google Books, in their attempt to remove duplicate books from their collection, has inadvertently removed some of the books, but the Internet Archive has, as far as I can tell, every volume for which the copyright has expired. Note that every time a volume is updated, it's completely redone from scratch by a new author, so the old ones are worth reading, too.

The original two volumes on Acts at the Internet Archive: Volume 1 and Volume 2.

The original volume on the Pastorals was published in 1924, so missed being in the US public domain by about a year (assuming the copyright was renewed, which I assume, but don't actually know either way). The author died in 1933, though, so it's public domain in life+70 countries (i.e. just about everywhere except the U.S.). It's at the Internet Archive here.

badgoodDeb · 05-03-2019, 02:54 PM

GtrsRGr8: Warren Wiersbe has passed away. http://kentuckytoday.com/stories/war...yfdrgddRfwPjoU

GtrsRGr8 · 05-03-2019, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

GtrsRGr8: Warren Wiersbe has passed away. http://kentuckytoday.com/stories/war...yfdrgddRfwPjoU

Thanks for passing along the information--I had not heard about it.

Freehunter · 05-05-2019, 08:38 AM

I may have to give up and get a smartphone. Saw several pastors commenting on this:

Literal Word Mobile App - NASB Bible https://www.literalword.com/mobile/index.html
Free
NewAmerican Standard Bible

"Literal Word exists to promote the word of God and not much else. No ads. No articles. No logging in. No distractions. Simply the Word. We believe that the Bible contains the most important information that anyone could ever come across and that accessing it should be as easy as possible.
This belief has driven every decision we've made designing Literal Word. The NASB translation of the Bible was selected for faithfully utilizing a word-for-word instead of a thought-for-thought translation method....
"All of Literal Word is offered free of charge, and all of it works without an internet connection....
"The Literal Word mobile app is available to download for iOS and Android..."

A pastor's review, shows the screen:

Fantastic NASB Bible App from Literal Word!! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7Di8z0xK4

conan50 · 05-05-2019, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freehunter

I may have to give up and get a smartphone. Saw several pastors commenting on this:

Literal Word Mobile App - NASB Bible https://www.literalword.com/mobile/index.html
Free
NewAmerican Standard Bible

Just downloaded it. Very nice! Thanks!

GtrsRGr8 · 05-09-2019, 12:28 AM

HCCP backlist study Bibles. $3.99 each. 15 of 'em. Some I don't recall seeing before.

https://gospelebooks.net/cheap-chris...bles-sale.html.

kevinp · 05-10-2019, 07:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freehunter

I may have to give up and get a smartphone. Saw several pastors commenting on this:

Literal Word Mobile App - NASB Bible https://www.literalword.com/mobile/index.html
Free
NewAmerican Standard Bible

"Literal Word exists to promote the word of God and not much else. No ads. No articles. No logging in. No distractions. Simply the Word. We believe that the Bible contains the most important information that anyone could ever come across and that accessing it should be as easy as possible.
This belief has driven every decision we've made designing Literal Word. The NASB translation of the Bible was selected for faithfully utilizing a word-for-word instead of a thought-for-thought translation method....
"All of Literal Word is offered free of charge, and all of it works without an internet connection....
"The Literal Word mobile app is available to download for iOS and Android..."

A pastor's review, shows the screen:

Fantastic NASB Bible App from Literal Word!! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7Di8z0xK4

Downloaded and installed. Thanks for sharing!

badgoodDeb · 05-10-2019, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kevinp

Downloaded and installed. Thanks for sharing!

Oh, alright. I got it too. Thanks!

GtrsRGr8 · 05-10-2019, 10:28 PM

The New American Standard Bible (NASB) is a very good word-for-word translation, IMHO.

I don't trust the translations which subscribe to the "dynamic equivalence" (thought-for-thought) principle--you sometimes get what the "translator" thinks that the text means, and not what the text might actually mean. I want a translation that will give me the information that I need to allow me to determine the meaning of a text, and not some work which gives the opinions of someone else.

The old American Standard Version (ASV), published in 1901, is even closer to being a word-for-word translation than the NASB. However, it has its own faults--probably most significantly coming from the fact that, well, it's 118 years old! It is available "everywhere" as a download, but new hard copies are (virtually?) impossible to find nowadays; usually you will need to check the used book market, if you want a copy.

Buried in the above two paragraphs is an important principle--there is really no such thing as an absolute word-for-word translation, neither is there a completely "dynamic equivalence" one. Each translation lies somewhere on a continuum between being word-for-word and embracing dynamic equivalence.

If you want an idea of what an absolutely word-for-word reading of, say, the New Testament looks like, I recommend that you look in an interlinear of the Greek New Testament. As much as possible, every Greek word, is rendered into an English word. It's virtually unreadable, and completely unsuitable for reading and even efficient Bible study.

If you want an idea of what an absolute dynamic equivalence "translation" looks like, well, I can't furnish one. It would bear faint resemblance to any Bible that you've ever read does. The closest to such a tome would be what is called a paraphrase--early in my life, The Living Bible, by Kenneth N. Taylor, was probably the most popular; later in my life, The Message, by Eugene Peterson probably has held that title (no pun intended).

I hope that Difflugia has the time and inclination to weigh in on the matter--he has a lot of knowledge on things like this, and frequently has something useful to say, seemingly no matter what the Bible subject is.

Regarding the apps mentioned in the posts above, I will check them out. However, the NASB is available on the Internet in numerous places. What I would like to find is a free narration of the text by a good narrator. There are free narrations available on the Internet in numerous places, but inevitably they employ the same individual, one who has a slightly annoying sound and, among other things also, quite frequently mispronounces words. This same person narrates at least one edition of the NASB that is sold--I have not been able to find a better free narration than his on the Internet, however; I confess that I have not yet looked as thoroughly as I would like to.

conan50 · 05-11-2019, 06:36 PM

Loving the Literal Word app! The NASB is a great translation in the Tyndale tradition.
Highlighting words to get the Greek and Hebrew equivalents is very nice and useful for Bible Scholars and anyone wanting to dig a bit deeper into the Bible.

Difflugia · 05-12-2019, 02:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The old American Standard Version (ASV), published in 1901, is even closer to being a word-for-word translation than the NASB. However, it has its own faults--probably most significantly coming from the fact that, well, it's 118 years old! It is available "everywhere" as a download, but new hard copies are (virtually?) impossible to find nowadays; usually you will need to check the used book market, if you want a copy.

I've been working for a while on an epub version of the ASV that includes the footnotes. I still keep nitpicking at it, but it's usable. Your mention of the ASV spurred me to put it in the Mobileread library. There are ebooks of the ASV for download all over the place, but none of them include the footnotes and I consider the footnotes to be an important part of the translation. This is especially true of the ASV, which has around ten thousand of them.

Most translations since the ASV have been more conservative in what they footnote. Seminaries and researchers loved the ASV because one gets an in-depth feel for the translation process by reading the footnotes along with the text. That same insight actually caused a lot of popular backlash against the translation, though, because too many people were alarmed at verses that could be read in multiple, often contradictory ways. As for the translation itself, I find the ASV difficult to read as straight prose, but I refer to it often.

I like the NASB and I think it's a really good word-for-word translation. I actually switched from the NASB to the ESV as my main translation because the ESV ebooks are so much better and free to boot. Unfortunately, my phone is Android 5.1 and the Literal Word app requires 6.0 or later. i guess it's time for a new phone.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

If you want an idea of what an absolutely word-for-word reading of, say, the New Testament looks like, I recommend that you look in an interlinear of the Greek New Testament. As much as possible, every Greek word, is rendered into an English word. It's virtually unreadable, and completely unsuitable for reading and even efficient Bible study.

Biblehub's online interlinear can't be beat.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I hope that Difflugia has the time and inclination to weigh in on the matter--he has a lot of knowledge on things like this, and frequently has something useful to say, seemingly no matter what the Bible subject is.

Thank you.

Difflugia · 05-15-2019, 10:34 AM

The Bible Knowledge Commentary: Minor Prophets from David C. Cook is free.

B&N
Kobo
Amazon

Two more volumes are $.79 at Christianbook or $.99 everywhere else.

Epistles and Prophecy
Christianbook
B&N
Kobo
Amazon

Wisdom
Christianbook
B&N
Kobo
Amazon

It also looks like ALL volumes of Warren Wiersbe's Be series of devotional Bible studies are $.72 each at Christianbook, $.90 each at Barnes & Noble, $.99 at Kobo, and regular price(!) at Amazon. Christianbook made it easy for me to search and scrape the data, so I'm listing those. I counted books and there are 49 at Christianbook, but 50 at Barnes & Noble. I don't know which one is missing.

Spoiler:

Little.Egret · 05-15-2019, 11:30 PM

Only non-fiction in top 100 free

Prayer 101 by Warren W. Wiersbe

https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-101-Wa...dp/B01DTQ8KE4/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prayer-101-...dp/B01DTQ8KE4/

https://www.amazon.ca/Prayer-101-War...dp/B01DTQ8KE4/

GtrsRGr8 · 05-17-2019, 12:39 AM

If you want to complete your set of Warren Wiersbe's popular "Be" series commentaries, or just to add a volume or two on books of the Bible that you have a special interest in, now seems like a good time to do it.

Over at gospelebooks.com, there are page after page of those little, highly-popular, easy-to-understand commentaries. About half of them are priced at the 99-cent price point, a price point that we have often seen for these ebooks at Amazon; However, the other half of them are priced at the unusual price of 90 cents. Go figure.

Gospelebooks.net gives links only to Amazon. I feel sure that at least some of the other, usual, vendors are following suit, at least to some extent.

04-25-2019, 09:08 PM	#871
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	The Ephesians book by Coekin appears to be a good one. It's got a 4.9(11) rating at Amazon, and 4.00(68) rating at GoodReads. I didn't recognize the name "Coekin." Maybe he's an up-and-comer, and we'll be seeing more of his works in the future. FYI--the Ephesians book is $9.99 as a Kindle. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 04-25-2019 at 09:10 PM.

05-10-2019, 10:28 PM	#880
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	The New American Standard Bible (NASB) is a very good word-for-word translation, IMHO. I don't trust the translations which subscribe to the "dynamic equivalence" (thought-for-thought) principle--you sometimes get what the "translator" thinks that the text means, and not what the text might actually mean. I want a translation that will give me the information that I need to allow me to determine the meaning of a text, and not some work which gives the opinions of someone else. The old American Standard Version (ASV), published in 1901, is even closer to being a word-for-word translation than the NASB. However, it has its own faults--probably most significantly coming from the fact that, well, it's 118 years old! It is available "everywhere" as a download, but new hard copies are (virtually?) impossible to find nowadays; usually you will need to check the used book market, if you want a copy. Buried in the above two paragraphs is an important principle--there is really no such thing as an absolute word-for-word translation, neither is there a completely "dynamic equivalence" one. Each translation lies somewhere on a continuum between being word-for-word and embracing dynamic equivalence. If you want an idea of what an absolutely word-for-word reading of, say, the New Testament looks like, I recommend that you look in an interlinear of the Greek New Testament. As much as possible, every Greek word, is rendered into an English word. It's virtually unreadable, and completely unsuitable for reading and even efficient Bible study. If you want an idea of what an absolute dynamic equivalence "translation" looks like, well, I can't furnish one. It would bear faint resemblance to any Bible that you've ever read does. The closest to such a tome would be what is called a paraphrase--early in my life, The Living Bible, by Kenneth N. Taylor, was probably the most popular; later in my life, The Message, by Eugene Peterson probably has held that title (no pun intended). I hope that Difflugia has the time and inclination to weigh in on the matter--he has a lot of knowledge on things like this, and frequently has something useful to say, seemingly no matter what the Bible subject is. Regarding the apps mentioned in the posts above, I will check them out. However, the NASB is available on the Internet in numerous places. What I would like to find is a free narration of the text by a good narrator. There are free narrations available on the Internet in numerous places, but inevitably they employ the same individual, one who has a slightly annoying sound and, among other things also, quite frequently mispronounces words. This same person narrates at least one edition of the NASB that is sold--I have not been able to find a better free narration than his on the Internet, however; I confess that I have not yet looked as thoroughly as I would like to. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 05-10-2019 at 10:58 PM.

05-15-2019, 10:34 AM	#883
Difflugia Testate Amoeba Posts: 3,049 Karma: 27300000 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Many Android devices, Kindle 2, Toshiba e755 PocketPC	The Bible Knowledge Commentary: Minor Prophets from David C. Cook is free. B&N Kobo Amazon Two more volumes are $.79 at Christianbook or $.99 everywhere else. Epistles and Prophecy Christianbook B&N Kobo Amazon Wisdom Christianbook B&N Kobo Amazon It also looks like ALL volumes of Warren Wiersbe's Be series of devotional Bible studies are $.72 each at Christianbook, $.90 each at Barnes & Noble, $.99 at Kobo, and regular price(!) at Amazon. Christianbook made it easy for me to search and scrape the data, so I'm listing those. I counted books and there are 49 at Christianbook, but 50 at Barnes & Noble. I don't know which one is missing. Spoiler: Be Obedient Be Delivered: Finding Freedom by Following God Be Committed (Ruth & Esther): Doing God's Will Whatever the Cost Be Courageous: Take Heart from Christ's Example Be Right: How to Be Right with God, Yourself, and Others Be Concerned (Minor Prophets): Making a Difference in Your Lifetime Be Free Be Confident: Live by Faith, Not by Sight Be Alive (John 1-12): Get to Know the Living Savior Be Reverent: Bowing Before Our Awesome God Be Hopeful Be Decisive Be Available: Accepting the Challenge to Confront the Enemy Be Patient Be Equipped: Acquiring the Tools for Spiritual Success Be Heroic: Demonstrating Bravery by Your Walk Be Complete Be Rich: Gaining the Things That Money Can't Buy Be Faithful: It's Always Too Soon to Quit! Be Mature Be Alert Be Wise Be Encouraged Be Ready: Living in Light of Christ's Return Be Satisfied: Looking for the Answer to the Meaning of Life Be Counted: Living a Life That Counts for God Be Amazed: Restoring an Attitude of Wonder and Worship Be Daring Be Strong Be Dynamic (Acts 1-12) Be Transformed: Christ's Triumph Means Your Transformation Be Diligent Be Basic Be Comforted Be Victorious Be Responsible: Being Good Stewards of God's Gifts Be Worshipful: Glorifying God for Who He Is Be Restored: Trusting God to See Us Through Be Loyal Be Authentic Be Successful: Attaining Wealth That Money Can't Buy Be Exultant: Praising God for His Mighty Works Be Distinct: Standing Firmly Against the World's Tides Be Joyful Be Real Be Compassionate: Let the World Know That Jesus Cares Be Holy: Becoming Set Apart for God Be Skillful: God's Guidebook to Wise Living Be Determined Last edited by Difflugia; 05-16-2019 at 08:46 AM. Reason: Fixed price.

05-17-2019, 12:39 AM	#885
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Massive Number of Warren Wiersbe's "Be" Series on Sale for 90 Cents and 99 Cents. If you want to complete your set of Warren Wiersbe's popular "Be" series commentaries, or just to add a volume or two on books of the Bible that you have a special interest in, now seems like a good time to do it. Over at gospelebooks.com, there are page after page of those little, highly-popular, easy-to-understand commentaries. About half of them are priced at the 99-cent price point, a price point that we have often seen for these ebooks at Amazon; However, the other half of them are priced at the unusual price of 90 cents. Go figure. Gospelebooks.net gives links only to Amazon. I feel sure that at least some of the other, usual, vendors are following suit, at least to some extent. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 05-17-2019 at 12:42 AM.

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05-01-2019, 04:50 PM	#872
Difflugia Testate Amoeba Posts: 3,049 Karma: 27300000 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Many Android devices, Kindle 2, Toshiba e755 PocketPC	The Logos freebie this month is a super good one. If you don't already have a Logos account, my opinion is that it's worth signing up just for this book. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles by I. Howard Marshall and Philip H. Towner. If you're willing to spend another $4.98 ($1.99 for the first, $2.99 for the second), you can also get A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Volumes One and Two by C. K. Barrett. These are volumes of the International Critical Commentary series, which is similar to the Anchor Yale Bible series. If you don't know what the "Pastoral Epistles" are, the free volume covers Titus, First Timothy and Second Timothy. If you want to know the scholars' opinions about the theology and textual traditions of the various books of the Bible, you can't do better than this series and, to borrow a phrase that normally doesn't come up in biblical discussions, "the first one's free." I can't recommend these books highly enough. The entire series is also on sale for $1,121.68 (regular price $1929.99), in case you like it so much you just need to have all of them. Keep in mind that Logos books can't be liberated by Alf's tools and require free Logos software to be read offline. They can, however, be read anytime online at biblia.com if you login using your Logos account credentials. The volumes are updated periodically so that they reflect the latest scholarship, but it's been around long enough that some of the original volumes have entered the public domain. Google Books, in their attempt to remove duplicate books from their collection, has inadvertently removed some of the books, but the Internet Archive has, as far as I can tell, every volume for which the copyright has expired. Note that every time a volume is updated, it's completely redone from scratch by a new author, so the old ones are worth reading, too. The original two volumes on Acts at the Internet Archive: Volume 1 and Volume 2. The original volume on the Pastorals was published in 1924, so missed being in the US public domain by about a year (assuming the copyright was renewed, which I assume, but don't actually know either way). The author died in 1933, though, so it's public domain in life+70 countries (i.e. just about everywhere except the U.S.). It's at the Internet Archive here.

05-03-2019, 02:54 PM	#873
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,551 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	GtrsRGr8: Warren Wiersbe has passed away. http://kentuckytoday.com/stories/war...yfdrgddRfwPjoU

05-05-2019, 08:38 AM	#875
Freehunter Connoisseur Posts: 68 Karma: 786508 Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Great Lakes Device: K4PC, PW2, HD7, calibre	I may have to give up and get a smartphone. Saw several pastors commenting on this: Literal Word Mobile App - NASB Bible https://www.literalword.com/mobile/index.html Free NewAmerican Standard Bible "Literal Word exists to promote the word of God and not much else. No ads. No articles. No logging in. No distractions. Simply the Word. We believe that the Bible contains the most important information that anyone could ever come across and that accessing it should be as easy as possible. This belief has driven every decision we've made designing Literal Word. The NASB translation of the Bible was selected for faithfully utilizing a word-for-word instead of a thought-for-thought translation method.... "All of Literal Word is offered free of charge, and all of it works without an internet connection.... "The Literal Word mobile app is available to download for iOS and Android..." A pastor's review, shows the screen: Fantastic NASB Bible App from Literal Word!! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7Di8z0xK4

05-09-2019, 12:28 AM	#877
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	HCCP backlist study Bibles. $3.99 each. 15 of 'em. Some I don't recall seeing before. https://gospelebooks.net/cheap-chris...bles-sale.html.

05-11-2019, 06:36 PM	#881
conan50 Fanatic Posts: 597 Karma: 14054112 Join Date: Jun 2014 Device: kindle	Loving the Literal Word app! The NASB is a great translation in the Tyndale tradition. Highlighting words to get the Greek and Hebrew equivalents is very nice and useful for Bible Scholars and anyone wanting to dig a bit deeper into the Bible.

05-15-2019, 11:30 PM	#884
Little.Egret Wizard Posts: 3,168 Karma: 37800000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle Fire 2, NOOK ST, Kindle HDX, Fire 7"	Only non-fiction in top 100 free Prayer 101 by Warren W. Wiersbe https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-101-Wa...dp/B01DTQ8KE4/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prayer-101-...dp/B01DTQ8KE4/ https://www.amazon.ca/Prayer-101-War...dp/B01DTQ8KE4/

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