Studying the Bible for all that it’s Worth
Recently, the group that meets to study the gospel of Matthew (podcasts of each lecture available here) asked me to talk about suggestions for studying the Bible with some depth.
I recorded the lecture and offered my suggestions, gave practical guides, and suggested several books. All of the reference books are available directly from my web site under Recommended Reading List. If you purchase them from the web site links, you will help At God’s Table at the same time.
Many of the books and sites shown on the PowerPoint are not on your Recommended Reading List, so we can’t buy them through Today’s Word. Can you notify us when they are added? Thanks.
the web sites are free, so no problem there, but can you tell me which books are not on the site? Was it Zodhiates and the Carpenter/Baker OT Dictionary?
In your Today’s Word above, you said:
“All of the reference books are available directly from my web site under Recommended Reading List. If you purchase them from the web site links, you will help At God’s Table at the same time.” You also sent a PowerPoint with it so we could follow your recommendations.
So in order to help At God’s Table, I went to the Recommended Reading List on your site to order some of the books, but could not find all of the ones you listed on the PowerPoint, such as
The Complete Word Study Dictionary,
Old Testament and the one for New Testament;
Theological Word Book of the Old Testament, One Volume;
The Interlinear Hebrew/Greek-English in 4 volumes
I already have some of these, but it would be better for Today’s Word if they were all on your site so we could help the community by buying them through you.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
I recently purchased a Bible that I have never heard of. It is called the “One New Man Bible,” subtitled, “Revealing Jewish Roots and Power.” In the Preface to this Bible, the editor, a Mr. William J. Morford, wrote: “This translation of the Hebrew Scriptures has been edited from a public domain English translation. The English has been brought up to date and many words previously translated according to tradition have been changed to the literal. Hebrew is a very expressive language, so this translation brings out much of the power that has commonly been omitted…It will help ease the Church into its Jewish Roots…”
The motives sound great, but as someone who knows virtually now Hebrew/Jewish history, I have no idea if there is anyone in this community who may be either familiar with Mr. Morfield or this version of the Bible.
I am familiar with this, in fact, I have a copy. Some of it is better than the usual. Some not. Again, Hebrew is terse (and it may be expressive), so no single word selected can really capture all the nuances nor the architectural structure of the consonants. And this translation is “edited from the public domain” which means it is not based directly on the Hebrew text. So, read it for insight and then compare it to the original languages.