The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Bible, Third Edition
- ISBN13: 9781592573899
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
This revised edition continues to walk both experienced Bible readers and those seeking it out for the first time through a chronological, story-by-story and person-by-person experience. Complete with maps of journeys and explanations of the acts and epistles, this book includes:• The journeys of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses, and the law from Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, and Kings, including David and Goliath, Gideon and Samson, and King Sol… More >>
November 4th, 2009 at 5:41 am
I have not had a lot of timeto review…but I like what if have read!Where is my last order…my check has still not cleared the bank. Thanks!
Rating: 3 / 5
November 4th, 2009 at 7:54 am
It is written by religious people for religious people. It fails to point out the the Hebrew people were not awear that a bat is not a bird among other scientific errors. But if you want to read about the good parts of the bible, this book is for you; because it only focuses on the book’s good side.
Rating: 4 / 5
November 4th, 2009 at 8:45 am
No question. Dr. Bell writes more honestly and with a purer vision than the so-called original Bible’s authors. I mean, the Bible has its merits, but it is BOR-ING! The action scenes are lost in rhyme scheme, cryptic language and morality tales. And the whole Joseph and the Dream Coat thing was done much better by Donny Osmond and David Cassidy. So save the ham-handed morality tales for Spielberg and Penny Marshall. Did even a single Bible author graduate from Harvard? How about even one of the lesser Ivy League schools. Thank you Dr. Bell for makign the Bible more palatable, easier to read and less about religion than about good storytelling.
Rating: 5 / 5
November 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am
It fills a much needed role in the modern library, as there are far too few books helping to spread the word of God among complete idiots. Too long has the idiot community suffered without faith or proper churchifying of any sort. But no longer, thanks to this revised edition of the idiot’s guide.
My only complaint is that this publisher also prints an “Idiot’s Guide to the Kama Sutra.” While it’s all well and good to encourage the mentally-handicapped to take a healthy interest in Christ, I don’t think it’s socially responsible to encourage them to breed overmuch.
Rating: 5 / 5
November 4th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
If Campbell and Bell are to be believed then no important eventin the history of the Bible came until after theReformation. Comically, these authors can only refer to the Catholic Church as the “important people” when assigning it credit for deciding which books belonged in the Bible; although, Bell and Campbell are able to mention the Catholic Church by name when accusing it of adding books to the Bible at the Council of Trent. The Catholic Church did not add books at Trent and only reaffirmed their rightful place in Sacred Scripture.
Campbell and Bell also error in claiming that the Roman Catholic Church broke away from the Orthodox Church. This is incorrect, and any dummy can easily reference the far wittier “Complete Idiot’s Guide to Biblical Mysteries” in the same series to discover that the reverse is true.
Bell and Campbell state in the foreward that they have written without bias. I will not make such claims.
Rating: 2 / 5