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Pros: The Revised English Bible is an excellent translation without the language being too old fashioned like the "King James" version or too flowery like "The New Living" translation.
Cons: It does contain the Apocrypha which makes it a thick and heavy bible.

I own five translations (NIV, NKJV, NRSV, Message, and REB) and find myself using this translation (REB) more than any other. I use the others for clarification or elucidation. Over six years of organized Bible studies, and many other years of individual study, the Oxford Study Bible has been my constant companion. I'll have other Bibles with me during the formal studies, but they are in addition to this one.

My only knock on this study Bible are the skimpy textual notes. For the most part the footnotes deal with historical or academic things, or are simply cross references. My NIV study Bible provides more spiritually or religiously oriented footnotes and textual notes. Still, the text of the Oxford Study Bible is clearer and a superior translation (in my opinion). I have two different commentaries as well, so footnotes aren't much of a problem for me. For those who don't want to invest in a commentary, though, be aware of this one limitation of this edition.

If I get into seminary, this Bible will be coming with me.

Speaking from an Anglican/Episcopalian perspective, this is my Bible of choice hands down. The REB Translation is lyrical and very understandable, and keeps closely to the ancient textual meaning. The helps are superb and clear. This Bible has assisted my study of God's word manyfold. It is a pleasure to open it up. Only wish it was offered in a leather bound version.

I bought this translation based in large part on a review written by Joshua Villines, a pastor in the Atlanta area.

The good things he says about this translation are spot on. To his comments I would add that this translation makes the text more vivid, clear and alive than many others I have read. This is first-class work.

This particular edition is printed on good paper and is a pleasure to read. For the price of a good dinner, it's yours.

(personal note: the cover is a plastic coated paper. I prefer the feel of cloth but that is a very small and unimportant complaint.)

There is no such thing as a perfect bible translation or version. Having said that, I love this Bible. The language is explosive and really grabs your attention. Let me allow it to speak for itself.

1 Peter 5:6-8 Humble yourselves , then, under God's mighty hand, and in due time he will lift you up. He care for you, so cast all your anxiety on him. Be on the alert! Wake Up! Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, prowls around looking for someone to devour. (Revised English Bible)

No, I'm not trying to make any biblical points through the verse above. I just wanted to show you how I feel this bible uses it's choice of the English language to really grab your attention. I will still use Bullinger's Companion Bible of the KJV as my main bible. However, in my humble opinion this is a solid Bible to reference in personal study. I know I will.

Tim Challies' amazingly thorough exploration of biblical discernment should be high on the reading list of every Christian who is concerned about what is true, and what is not ... who wants above all to know God's truth in order to know His will ... and who wants His will to replace his own. "We will find joy and peace not in following our own path," the author points out, "but in allowing our minds to be so changed that our desires are the same as God's." I believe this book can make a significant contribution to that process.

I triple-starred many sections, but perhaps my favorite is the chapter entitled "The Practice of Discernment." Here, Tim describes in compelling detail 17 steps for distinguishing between truth and error. He walks us through the process using an interesting example - the seemingly benign premise that we need to forgive ourselves, endorsed in a contemporary Christian song called (surprise) "Forgive Yourself" as well as by every fan and proponent of the self-esteem movement. I've already had the opportunity to apply his suggestions to a theological issue I've been wrestling with for months. Guess what: They work! They actually broke the pattern of circular thinking I'd fallen into over this particular issue, leading me to biblical truths that have restored my peace.

The first line of a favorite hymn kept dancing through my head as I read: "Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart." I'd always thought the writer meant that he wanted the Lord to be all that he sees, and that may indeed be the case. But this book has given me a new spin on these words. As Tim writes, "Our goal in discernment is to do just this: to see things through God's eyes through the Bible and thus to see things as they really are." I'm already finding that a little easier to do.

I suspect that the topic of discernment is one that, while important, is not often examined by Christians. That this is the case is evident when looking at life in our mainline evangelical churches. Anymore, anyone that mentions that name of God or Jesus is considered part of the crowd. Too often, barely any thought goes into which shepherds the flock is following or which wave the church is riding.

It's a bit scary that I remember the last time I heard about a book on the actual topic of discernment. True there are many books critical of unbiblical theology, and for good reason. What we don't see are book written on how to think about these matters Biblically. In this respect, "The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment" by widely-read blogger, Tim Challies, provides a good entry into a seldom examined and yet critical aspect of Christian life.

For the most part Challies is clear and gets quickly to the point. On occasion authors seem the subject accessible enough that the reader doesn't feel overly challenged. It is a strength for an author when they can make a useful book understandable and not overly daunting. This is nearly the case here, though it is offset by it's isolation in the landscape in Christian publishing.

My favorite chapter, Chapter 8's "The Dangers of Discernment", is a wise anticipation of the abuses of testing all things. Every discipline suffers from under use. In American culture, under use of discernment is the spirit of the times. However, those pockets of hyper-vigilance have historically bred the disdain for doctrine that is so popular today. Challies lists several kinds of abuses in discernment that pain me to agree. For my money, I'd like to see future printings use a larger font for this entry.

This book, short as it was, probably could have been a bit shorter. At several points throughout the book I wasn't convinced that subsequent points were distinct enough to warrant elaboration. The final chapter, an exercise in practicing discernment, went counter to the simplicity of the book by rolling through seventeen steps.

Challies' book makes a good tool for ministering to fellow believers who need to be introduced to discernment. Where I see this book being most useful is for a particular Christian demographic: mainline evangelicals who have not learned to be critical thinkers. Many of these Christians do not read outside of popular Christian literature if they read at all, they consider theology proper inaccessible and even divisive, and they tend to value the unity of the visible church above truth or being "correct". Furthermore, this book would be very helpful for folks who are moving out of churches where there is not a premium on connecting theological dots and into congregations that encourage more intentional biblical consideration. Challies can be helpful in these cases because it is not heavy handed and yet it makes a convincing case.

Survey after survey shows that most American Christians' behavior and even beliefs differ very little from the culture at large. Yet Christ commands us: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." (Rom. 12:2). The new book The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment by Tim Challies is designed to help believers become more discerning and biblical in their thinking. He writes of his goal: "This book is written for the general reader who wishes to understand discernment and to understand what the Bible teaches about discernment, and who wishes to equip himself in this discipline....It is written for you and for me--average Christians living in a culture and in a church where it so often seems that anything goes." (pp. 15-16). The writing is clear, the reasoning is Biblical and he clearly lays out the Scriptural data in making his case. He also summarizes each chapter at the end in a "Key Thought" paragraph. He also has prepared study questions for each chapter in the back of the book.

Challies starts out by showing how the Bible calls us to discernment, and that according to Scripture, lack of discernment is a clear sign of a weak faith. "Scripture makes it plain: if you are not a person who exhibits and exercises discernment you are not a mature Christian." (pp. 23). And he adds, "Sadly, many who consider themselves Christian have a worldview that is completely inconsistent with their profession of faith. It is a worldview premised not on truths revealed in the Bible but on a person's flawed understanding of the world. It is ultimately a worldview rooted in a person's own sinfulness." (pp. 45).

So how does Challies define discernment? After a chapter showing the importance of discernment, and the another showing the challenge of discernment, in the third chapter he defines it. "Discernment is the skill of understanding and applying God's Word with the purpose of separating truth from error and right from wrong." (pp. 61). The author spends most of the rest of the book describing how the Bible presents truth and error, and how the Spirit works to develop our gifts in discernment and wisdom. He also shows how discernment must be linked with Christ-like character traits such as humility and kindness; otherwise a discerning person can easily turn into a proud and critical person! In Chapters 9, he specifically gives direction on how to develop discernment in your life, and then in Chapter 10, he takes the reader through the steps to take in discernment - using some lyrics from a "Christian" song as an example.

This book is thorough, clear, practical and incredibly timely! Best of all, it is very Biblical! Scrpture reminds us that we are called to mature in our faith, so that "we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes." (Eph. 4:14). This book will go a long way in helping you grow up in your faith and practice. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Take up and read this- you'll be better for it!

One word really stands out in my mind after finishing Tim Challies' book that is "timely." We live in a day and age where the term evangelical has lost its meaning and everything under the sun is in Christian bookstores, so the call for discernment is certainly high. I found this book to be written with a well-expressed style, yet very easy to comprehend. In the words of Tim himself, "This book is written for the general reader who wishes to understand discernment...It is not written primarily for people with theological training, though I trust they too, can benefit from it. Rather, it is written for you and me-average Christians..."(15). As soon as you begin the book you will realize its intent is not to provide you with a massive list of good and bad authors, but to help the reader better understand how to develop and begin practicing discernment..

Tim defines discernment as "Discernment is the skill of understanding and applying God's Word with the purpose of separating truth from error and right from wrong" (61). Concisely, this is thinking biblically, which all Christians are called to. I certainly recommend this book to any one that is looking for a better understanding in the area of "separating truth from error and right from wrong."

Ug ... what a dreadful book. I'm sure the author was well meaning, but wow ... could this be any more dry and dull?

Also, I am concerned how "deistic" sounding the entire book reads. Deists take pride in their reliance upon the knowledge and logic inherent in their worldview. Although these things are good, they fail to answer the big questions that cannot be addressed by science or logic. The assumption that God acts impersonally leads one to conclude that the god of deism must either be a really bad designer or hideously cruel. There is also very little (2 pages) which even bring up the idea of the Trinity on this matter. I find that deeply troubling considering this topic.

If people want discernment, here is a clue that will save you almost $15. Get a good Bible, and study it.

You can thank me for saving your money later.

This resource is proving to be very valuable in my Study of the Bible. I often struggle with pulling out the subtle but significant differences between the synoptic gospels. Flipping back and forth in my Bible leaves me feeling frustrated. After using the "NIV Harmony of the Gospels" in my personal study, rather than feeling frustrated, I am excited and am able to appreciate those subtle differences. I would HIGHLY recommend this resource for any student of God's Word!

I am currently reading through this book, which is really a combination of each of the gospel accounts in chronological order. So far the book has been very enlightening and has taught me more about Christ than I would have learned by reading one gospel at a time. There is something about reading each account side by side that really brings the stories to life, and making Jesus more tangible (at least in my mind). If you want to know more about Jesus, His disciples, and you want to grow closer to the Lord this is a great book to help with all of these things.

The commentary is excellent. For example, did you realize that Jesus began to teach in parables late in His ministry, and only after many people had turned against Him?

One other thing that I really like about this book is that every time an old testament prophecy is fulfilled in the new testament it gives the old testament reference right there in the text. I know that many Bibles note this, but they use superscript marks and it's easy to read over them, so I like the references in the reading, that way I don't miss anything.

I enjoyed this book and find it full of information that is useful. It is a good reference to use along with your bible.

This helpful book arranges the four gospels in parallel columns, following the life of Jesus. It is a very helpful resource for anyone desiring to know what Jesus said and did in chronological order. Also, the book provides excellent essays and notes about various interesting and controversial issues involved in studying Jesus' life. It uses the New International Version in the text, making it available to all English readers. I use this book as an important part of the course I teach to ministerial students on the life of Jesus.

This is not a new harmony of the Gospels. It is a "revision" of the time honored standard work by A T Robertson and John Broadus. What Thomas and Gundry have done (which they readily admit in the preface) is to "revise" the translation to the NIV, and the original notes and essays to their own Dispensational theology. I quote from page 6 & 7 "The second comparison lies in eschatological perspective. Occasionally Broadus and Robertson reflected the amillennial or postmillennial temperament of their times. The twentieth century has witnessed a surge of interest in the premillennial interpretation of Scripture. It is the persuasion of the revisers that a consistent grammatical-historical interpretation of the Bible inevitably leads to this latter view. For this reason several of the explanatory footnotes reflect a corresponding difference in perspective from the earlier editions."

Robertson and Broadus were both considered "consistent grammatical-historical" interpreters of scripture and they, just like many today, were not Dispensationalist. I think it sad to see their material misused in this way. If you are a serious student of the Bible and wish to form your own opinions of Eschatology stay away from this harmony. Or at least realize what you are getting before you spend your money on this book. I bought a copy of the original and find it much more enlightening and accurate.

The New Jerusalem Bible is a fine study aid. Though it is the product of Catholic scholars there is nothing in either the translation or the excellent notes which could not have been written by competent scholars of any denominational background. I like the idiomatic English: Jezebel to Ahab - "Some king of Israel you make!" Compare NRSV - "Do you now govern Israel?".

Any translation is a trade-off between the literal and the idiomatic. The latter scores in liveliness and instant intelligibility but will have a shorter shelf-life and may not travel so well across all the cultures where English is the preferred language of Christians. A more literal translation keeps closer to the Hebrew and Greek mode of expression but will make a greater demand on the reader's attention.

NJB (Standard edition) avoids double columns and breaks up the text with headings, making reference much easier. It's not a Bible to take to church with you, but I would recommend it wholeheartedly for any serious student's study.

I love the New Jerusalem Bible. It's the only translation I love to read. I already own one but, it has very small type. I bought this one for the larger type and supposed more notes. It does have larger type. I was expecting it to have more cross references, foot notes and information. It only has one map.
It's still the best version around, Catholic or not. Most accurate and I too, love to see "Yahweh" in the Bible. It's very fluid to read.

This translation is inspiring! One of the few translations to include the Holy Name Yahweh. I regret that possible future editions will revert back to using Lord rather than using Yahweh. Get this treasure while you can.

The bibles I ordered are for my friends. I have my own for long time. The package was poorly done and the dust covers were damaged and I feel bad to present to my friends as a gift. Wish you can do better in packing the books.

Disregard the nay sayers who have rated this bible under 4 stars. They have no grasp of what an accurate translation is. This is the most accurate, easy to read bible you will ever see. It restores to the text the name of God in the seven some odd thousand times it appeared in the Old Testament (or Hebrew scriptures). This fact can be easily confirmed with the Strong's Concordance. It transliterates the word "Sheol" in place of the King James words, "Grave, Hell, and Pit". This lets the reader make up his or her own mind regarding the controversial subject of Hell, avoiding any outside, sectarian bias. It contains few distracting and unnecessary references which would serve only to keep the reader from learning God's word in a natural, undirected way, absent of religious influence. Buy it. I believe you'll be happy you did.

Zuck's work in this book is excellent! He is in-line with Ramm's "Protestant Biblical Interpretation," but more up to date.

This has been a good introductory book. The language is somewhat simplistic but other than that it is a fine book. His chapter on definitions in some ways adds to the confusion that is the current state of hermeneutics.

For the serious student this book should be supplemented by Robert Thomas' book on Hermeneutics "Evangelical Hermeneutics"

After teaching Bible interpretation at Dallas Theological Seminary for about 40 years, I'm sure Dr. Zuck has plenty of wonderful things to contribute to anyone who desires to sharpen their hermaneutical skills.

This is an extremely helpful work on the topic. It is both scholarly and friendly to the reader. The author takes a position while at the same time objectively presenting opposing views. Exercises are included for the reader as well as the teacher who wants to get the class involved. An instructor's companion CD is available through Baker Academic which is extremely valuable if you plan to teach from the text.
In short, this book has become a treasure in my library and I am grateful to Henry Virkler and Karelynne Gerber Ayayo for writing it (and revising it - 2nd edition). Thank you both.

Hermeneutics: Principles and Process of Biblical Interpretation, did exactly for me what I was expecting it to do. It gave me a greater knowledge of understanding the science and art of word meaning. For a lay person who does not hold a siminary degree, this book was a good introduction for biblical study.

This book will teach you what you need to know and is very well put together. I advise anyone who wants to take the Bible serious this is the book for you.
Thank you Henry Virkler, i have learned more from your book than any other i used at Bible Collage and you put it in a easy format. You took a hard subject and made it accessible.

I was quite disappointed in this book. In a very "round about" way Virkler tells his readers that the Bible is to be interpreted personally, that is, no interpretation is wrong, and no interpretation is right, i.e., "to each his own." This type of new hermeneutic, though on the increase, decreases the authoritative nature of God's Word.

Virkler does an excellent job of presenting facts and theories, yet at the same time presents varying historical views of each sujbect. Some may object to the inclusion of alternative viewpoints on some subjects but I found this helpful in understanding how different people came up with their particular opinions. I found the research to be sound and extensive.

One of the best resources you can buy, thorough research, good scholarship and a wide range of authors. Can't go wrong with this resource.

Got this For my son-in-law it is a book he has wanted for a long time!

After owning this volume for a year, I seldom use it. The many scholars attest to an assortment of theological strains, but only some bring fresh convictions based on proven, solid Protestant beliefs. The one real disputable contribution is that of 'Romans' by Jimmy Dunn. It has not found true moorings anywhere else, besides the Isle of Pelagius.

`The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters' is a superb reference source if your primary objective is the study of Paul's writings. As a one-volume source, unlike, for example, the six volume Anchor Bible Dictionary, it is a far less expensive reference of all Pauline issues on your desk. For most people, the very best aspect of the volume is its dedication to contemporary scholarship. This focus has many good points and a few problems.

The only problem I see with its `contemporary' focus is that some important works on Paul may not cited. This is only a theoretical concern, as my biggest fear, that the article on `Mysticism' would not refer to Albert Schweitzer's important `The Mysticism of St. Paul', but it does.

On the other side of the coin, all major articles include generous bibliographies to both books and articles in English, German, and French. I find no references to Italian articles, but if there were important articles written in Italian, I believe they will be here.

While some major Pauline scholars such as Ed Sanders and N. T. Wright are missing from the list of contributors, there are many authorities that do weigh in. Foremost among these are James Dunn, F. F. Bruce, and David Wright. There are over a hundred contributors, so I'm certain I'm unfamiliar with many major authorities. From what I know, the credentials of the contributors are impeccable.

While I learned early in my elementary school years that an encyclopedia was always a good place to start a research project, it was often not enough for first class work, but there were always things an encyclopedia could do which no other reference could do quite as well. And, this volume does a great job on those tasks.

First, as already mentioned, it has great bibliographies on all major articles. My only complaint is that since all the entries run together (no break to a new line when beginning with the author's name), the bibliographies are hard to read. I commonly miss an important reference when my aging eyes skip over the lines just a bit too quickly.

Second, the text has superior cross-referencing. Every time a word or phrase is used which is itself the subject of an article, the word or phrase is asterisked. I don't recall that even the mighty Encyclopedia Britannia did so well in cross-referencing. I know the Britannia's bibliographies were not nearly as good.

Third, there are lots of useful articles with information you simply don't find anywhere else, at least not with a certain amount of luck. Two examples stand out. The first is a list of Pauline colleagues, all those co-workers mentioned in Acts and in Paul's own letters, with indications of their roles. The second is the list of Old Testament citations in Paul, divided by those where the quote from the Septuagint is exact and those where the quote is paraphrased. Most of this is reprinted from classic papers on the subject, primarily by E. E. Ellis.

There is one area where one needs to use additional references. While there are excellent articles on each of Paul's letters, they do not constitute complete exegeses of the letters. Fortunately, again, the bibliographies offer excellent lists of full commentaries; however, they are not complete and they are limited to `modern' exegeses. The bibliography on Romans, for example, does not include either N. T. Wright's very long commentary in `The New Interpreter's Bible' or references to classical commentaries such as those by Martin Luther or John Barth. Second, I would not entirely trust the information here on very early Judaism, for example. On the other hand, long general articles about, for example `Law' are extremely good guidance on research on this subject going back over 100 years.

This book will not replace more specialized works, but it will do an excellent job of helping you find and understand the mountain of scholarly research on Paul from the last century.

I enjoy reading this book. It has great contributions to the identity of Paul and circumstances of his letters. Articles are written by well-known scholars. It gives you a quick and extensive overview on recent debates of the scholarship on particular topics. Instead of reading a dozen books, you can read a comprehensive summary in a article on the topic of your interest. It is a great book and I recommend it to any student of the New Testament.

I believe that this book is a good tool to help one understand the Psalms. It is easy to read and it uses language that the common man can understand. I like how the book starts off with showing how the Psalms fit in the Bible. I like how it explains them as a mini Bible in itself. I think that Longman does a good job explaining the different types of psalms that are in the book of Psalms. I like the way that Longman explained parallelism and the other elements of poetry that are visible. I was always afraid of poetry and all the different things that it included but it makes more sense. It is very good for Longman to provide some psalms in the back and give an example of what he just wrote about in his book. It makes it easier to understand when there is an example provided. At the end of each chapter it also provides a psalm study of things that were just explained in the chapter. This helps the reader practice what they are learning and I think that that is a good idea. I think that the author did a good job of showing how the psalms relate to the common man. He showed how people could use them to worship and how they can learn from them. Longman did a good job of getting his purpose across and helping one to read the Psalms better.

This book was recommended to me by a theology professor who has yet to steer me wrong in his assessments of informative reading, based on my less than advanced study of scripture. Longman disects the Psalter as no commentary does. The various genres and purposes (uses) of the Psalms are explained in an easy to understand fashion similar to his "Reading the Bible with Heart and Mind". He concludes each chapter with a short exercise and list of recommended readings specific to that chapter. Acknowledged as an elementary how-to-understand guidebook on the Psalms it is, nevertheless unparalled for its informative content. Combined with Derek Kidner's commentaries, I have found new blessings in the often misunderstood and overlooked Book of Psalms.

This is by far the easiest Hebrew Grammar tool I have used. It is very readable and simple to understand and incorporate into Hebrew studies. The only gripe I have is that the outline style organization method is somewhat confusing if you've been studying for more than a couple of hours. Other than that, it is a great tool to use along with a larger lexicon or other more comprehensive resource.

As a beginning student of Hebrew at the graduate level, I selected this book to supplement our course grammar. I found this text to offer understandable extension to information in the grammar. I am very pleased with my purchase, and believe Arnold and Choi have, in a compact work, provided biblical Hebrew students a very valuable tool for understanding how the language goes together.

It's stunning that after years of Biblical authorship, we still don't have a good guide to Biblical grammar for beginning or intermediate level students. Biblical grammar is a tricky thing: it is the product of modern scholarship's attempt to reconstruct a Biblical grammar. Arnold and Choi's contribution is helpful in many ways: it allows someone with only basic grammatical knowledge to penetrate and learn Biblical grammar, someone who would otherwise be lost by the concision of Moshe Greenberg or overwhelmed by Gesenius. It will explain to you that there are no tenses in Hebrew, only "aspects" (perfect and imperfect), and it will run down long taxonomical lists of grammatical "uses", such as pages and pages and pages of the various "meanings" of the lamed. (For what it's worth, there is increasing scholarship today that Biblical Hebrew in fact is a tensed language, not an aspected language, though, not surprisingly, Arnold and Choi do not point out that there is an opposing opinion to theirs.)

The problem, and it is a major one, is that Arnold and Choi make no effort to present to the reader which meanings and uses are relatively established and which are speculative. When I went over many of the uses with a professor of Biblical grammar, I learned that they establish entire categories for uses that occur once in the whole Bible. This is their downfall: if they can make another use or "case," then they will (the astronomical number of special uses of the construct form is absurd), and then they'll tell us that we have to put certain examples in those categories. We are told, for example, that the causative hifil of "see" is the permissive hifil, as in "God let him see" when in fact there is no reason not to translate it "God showed him."

In a pedagogical sense, this has a negative effect on the reader, since we are led to believe that there are dozens and dozens of uses and cases we must memorize, when in fact they could have saved everyone a lot of trouble by simple estimating frequency next to each of their entries, so a student could know what to concentrate on. Furthermore, their hyper-scholarly approach requires that the reader know lots of grammatical terms, which few students today know.

Is it helpful at all? Yes, particularly with verb forms. Most students, even those with significant modern Hebrew under their belts, do not understand the verb form uses in the Bible, such as that Nifal is rarely a passive, and is most often a reflexive and sometimes a reciprocal. That's very important when translating the Bible. Similarly, if you don't understand what it means that Pi'el is used causally for statives, then you can't understand Biblical Hebrew, and this book will explain to you what that means (though you will have to look up "stative" in a dictionary), or what a "putative pi'el" is, which is vital. Read those sections of their book five or six times and you'll eventually "get it."

Still, I personally prefer Moshe Greenberg's Introduction to Hebrew, though that's very short and very dense and assumes you have a basic grounding in Hebrew and grammatical terms.

This is a book I've been looking for. It's nice to have a reference book with all the syntax rules organized and structured. I've used a number of grammars for Biblical Hebrew and some of them deal with syntax to one degree or another, but no one has a summary of syntax rules. This is a great complement to one's study of Biblical Hebrew -- it's not a substitute for a grammar book. I highly recommend it before moving on to Waltke and O'Connor.

I have used this book extensively as I have exegeted the Hebrew text and it is fantastic. This guide is snap to use for about 95% of the questions I have regarding the text. The other 5% I use Walkte and O'Connor.

The point when using any reference book is to expand on understanding and to get the true sense of the subject under study. This "Strongest" Strong's concordance falls short of this, as it apparently uses personal bias in its definitions (and comments), i.e. cross - 'stauros - cross, cross'. Research is for accurate knowledge. I was very disappointed.

If you are a fan of the NIV Bible then this is the best book to have along with it. This exhaustive concordance has everything you need to study the words in the NIV bible. It includes the Hebrew and Greek dictionaries. This is a must have book for your bible study needs!

The Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek dictionaries are done very well, compared to the old Strong's Concordance I have.

They took James Strong's classic and computer verified the findings. Best match for the KJV for serious bible students.